Protection weighed for bird in West's energy areas

This April 2007 photo provided by the Nevada Department of Wildlife shows a male and female sage grouse in the mountains near Reno Nev. As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gets ready to re-examine whether the greater sage grouse deserves federal protection, Shawn Espinosa and other state wildlife biologists across the West are frantically looking for the bird and the traditional mating grounds known as leks where they have lived for centuries. (AP Photo/Nevada Department of Wildlife, Kim Toulouse)