Sharp-tailed Grouse Restoration; Colville Tribes Restore Habitat for Sharp-tailed Grouse, Annual Report 2001-2002

摘要

The project manager spent the last part of March and most of the month of April doing sharp-tailed grouse lek counts. Counts were done on known leks and other areas were surveyed for new leks. The leks monitored each year produced about the same number of birds as last year except for those leks affected by last years fires. Those counts went down. Seven historic leks on the Westside had no birds in attendance this year. One new lek was found above Grand Coulee Dam on Tribal lands and will be called the Coulee Dam Lek. The Westside of the Reservation was surveyed for possible leks with no success. The project manager tried to visit each lek at least twice with a week between visits to get an accurate count of each lek. The project manager checked 30 of the 36 historic/known leks on the Reservation. Cemetery Ridge, Grouse Hill, Townsend, Biles Coleman, Anderson and Tower leks were not surveyed this year.