Oregon · UplandGreater sage-grouse

Greater sage-grouse in Oregon is restricted to the sagebrush-dominated Northern Basin and Range ecoregion of the state's far southeastern quadrant, and ODFW manages both the species' habitat and its permit hunting on hard, individually named geographic units rather than a single statewide season. ODFW's own Core Area Approach documentation describes the Northern Basin and Range ecoregion as covering a very large southeastern portion of the state, from Burns south to the Nevada border and from Christmas Valley east to Idaho, high-elevation, desert-like terrain dominated by sagebrush communities. Within that ecoregion, ODFW maps formal core habitat areas (the highest-density breeding, wintering, and migratory/connectivity habitat needed to conserve roughly 90% of Oregon's sage-grouse population, last updated 2023) versus lower-density surrounding habitat. The regulatory hunt itself is limited-entry and confined to nine named, individually mapped units for the 2026 season, each corresponding to a distinct portion of this same southeastern range: Beulah (J65), Malheur River (J66), Owyhee (J67), Trout Creek Mountains (J68A), East Whitehorse (J68B), Steens (J69), Beatys Butte (J70), North Wagontire (J73A), and Warner (J74).