west-wide, in the 11 western states that sage-grouse is in, there have been, in the last 4 to 5 yearsthere has been an unprecendented corporate conservation that has been happening across the board between federal agencies private landowners come a state agencies, and there is a huge momentum that's been built up, and my fear for our wildlife populations in general is that a listing of the sage-grouse as cooperative conservation a generation. -- sage-grouse as endangered will set back cooperative conservation a generation. we have learned how to communicate and get along and work cooperatively, and i would hate to see that lost. jake li: the species is a focus of unprecedented, range-wide conservation efforts, and to prevent it from enlisted under the u.s. endangered species act within the next three years. for example, the usda's conservation arm has spent over $100 million to conserve the species. rhonda beadell: you need to establish some core habitat zones, and that is the problem with that, is finding the money to do it. we have the nature conservancy and they have rehabilitation