Sage grouse set up for failure

 With climate change becoming more and more alarming, whether we want to admit it or not this world is changing, ecosystems are shifting, and species are dying.  With sagebrush and the sage grouse the issue is involved with fire. This is a complicated and controversial issue. The sagebrush of the great basin is largely being affected by climate change. Higher temperatures and longer dry seasons are having a dramatic effect on this particular ecosystem not to mention agriculture and cattle grazing. Thus the ecosystem for the sage grouse is getting smaller and smaller as well as the sage grouse population to the point of being endangered. As fire sweeps across these lands it is killing what little areas of sagebrush that are left and due to climate change new sagebrush plants are not able to return and in many cases are over run by invasive cheatgrass. In order to try and recover the population of sage grouse, most likely the population will have to be moved since this environment is no longer habitable.