Eastern Oregon is home to over 15 million acres of sage-grouse habitat. The SageCon Partnership advances policies and actions that reduce threats to sage-grouse, sagebrush ecosystems and Oregon's rural communities.
Find the latest SageCon news, resources and updates here. Link to State Action Report Executive Order 15-18 here
Plans, rules, agreements, and incentive programs developed by SageCon partners form the basis of actions throughout Oregon to address threats to sage-grouse populations, sagebrush ecosystems, and economic development and rural community vitality. Adaptive management of policy and implementation continues today.
The SageCon Partnership has developed tools and datasets to support project planning in sage-grouse country. Whether planning an economic development or habitat restoration project, these tools are designed to make advancing your effort more efficient and effective in light of various sage-grouse rules or plan requirements and intentions.
Wrapped up in the name "sage-grouse" are a host of big issues related to public lands, the settement of the American West, roles and layers of government, rural communities, energy and economic development, wildfire, outdoor recreation and vast ecosystems supporting unique and important wildlife. The sagebrush steppe ecosystem provides habitat for the sage-grouse and hundreds of other animal and plant species from the declining pygmy rabbit to flowering plants, shrubs and grasses. The sage-grouse represents an umbrella species in the sagebrush sea as it has disappeared from most of its historic range and faces threats from fire, invasive species and habitat fragmentation. While often expressed shorthand in the name of this particular bird species, these deeper ongoing threads and conversations continue to shape the Oregon and the West as a whole.
The Sage-Grouse Conservation Partnership formed out of discussions beginning in Oregon in 2010 and represents a broad base of stakeholders to: