This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Present in WA (isolated central-WA population, e.g.Douglas/Grant counties) but explicitly closed to hunting statewide; WDFW's own grouse-ID pages caption it as 'protected'.
A narrow, near-extirpated, tightly managed remnant population: greater sage-grouse is state-endangered and closed to hunting statewide in Washington, with a population WDFW describes as continuing to decrease. The species' entire remaining Washington range is a small, isolated central-Washington population, and WDFW's own recovery reporting is unambiguous about where within the state it sits: Douglas County has by far the highest abundance of greater sage-grouse in the state, with WDFW biologists conducting annual lek counts at named leks, Pine Canyon and Dutch Henry, both confirmed active, plus ongoing searches (driving county roads at half-mile intervals listening for display vocalizations) for previously unknown leks in the same core area. A second, smaller population exists in Grant County. No sub-state breakdown beyond this Douglas-core / Grant-secondary pattern is published, since the species' entire Washington range is already this narrow.
State-endangered and closed to hunting statewide, but WDFW biologists actively search for and count leks in the Douglas County core area (named leks Pine Canyon and Dutch Henry both confirmed active) -- a genuine "monitoring continues despite closure" case; population described as continuing to decrease. WDFW publishes no standalone annual lek-count report of the kind South Dakota, North Dakota, Idaho and Utah produce, so no dated 2026 figure exists outside the recovery-plan documents.
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