2019 CA sage grouse season. No permits issued?

[spectr17]

Looking at the upland regs it says no permits. I guess the sage chicken numbers are down?

 

[jbv]

No permits the last two years...

I think our sage grouse numbers have gone up a little. But, we don't have a ton anyways. I wonder if we will ever get those tags back.

 

[Bubblehide]

The numbers have been dropping for about 30 years. They have finally started to rise just the last few years.

 

[castone001]

its too bad really that they didn't issue permits again in my avatar is my daughter and her first SG several years back.
We loved hunting for them.

 

[dead guy]

Had to go to Wyoming for my first SG hunt! Flushed a covey of them with a herd of pronghorn antelope only about 150 yards away.

 

[quaildeath]

How they taste btw?
Heard they don’t eat well cause of their diet? Any truth to this?

 

[GSP4Runner]

I took my friend the last year they gave 15 permits in CA and he got one. It is sad they aren't issuing permits I live in the area and there are tons of Sage Grouse here. I came across a biologist who was surveying sage grouse and he was looking in the wrong area completely, no wonder....

 

[spectr17]

I bumped into 2 sage grouse east of crowley lake, they flushed high and hard in a stiff winter wind. They were up top on a ridge about 2pm. They always remind me of turkeys when they flush with the big wingbeats. It was fun to see that and I just wish I had a camera rolling.