Closed
Fish and Game Commission adopted zero-permit quotas in 2017 for all sage grouse hunting zones (East Lassen, Central Lassen, North Mono, South Mono) due to declining population estimates; remains closed for 2026-27, including the falconry season.
CDFW's 2026 lek-count trends PDF ("Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) trends for California, 2000-2026", file dated 2026-07-30, read in full 2026-08-19) reports peak male counts across four hunt-zone lek groups, 2025→2026: Central Lassen down (94→58), East Lassen up (415→492), South Mono up (269→327). The North Mono sentence is internally contradictory in the source itself — it says "decreased" but gives 675→1,035, which is numerically an increase; the accompanying chart's shape (a 2026 spike to a new multi-decade high) reads as consistent with the numbers rather than the word, so this entry treats North Mono as up — flagged as an unresolved source-side inconsistency in the raw capture rather than silently corrected. Net: 3 of 4 zones up. Season remains closed statewide (0 permits, all 4 zones) since 2017 — monitoring continues despite the closure, matching the same conservation-monitoring-despite-closure pattern already logged for CO/ND/MT sage-grouse.