Sage grouse seasonal habitat map

This maps show how one of the American West's most iconic species, the greater sage-grouse, uses its habitat during different times of the year across large swaths of the Great Basin. Areas in red show a high probability, and blue, low.  

The maps are part of a report which can help federal and state resource managers and other stakeholders conserve sagebrush ecosystems that the grouse may rely on the most during important life-history periods and across the entire year. This decision support tool also accounts for differences between available habitat in wetter, northern areas versus drier, southern areas, and incorporates high-resolution mapping of sagebrush community components, like the spread of with pinyon and juniper trees into normally treeless sagebrush habitat and percent cover of different sagebrush shrubs and herbaceous vegetation. The full report is online: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20161080