Spring Fling: A Morning on the Sage Grouse Lek

There’s a unique wildlife crossing sign on the side of the road among Idaho’s vast sagebrush sea. It’s a standard, yellow diamond with a black symbol, but the symbol is anything but ordinary. Usually, wildlife crossing signs display a leaping deer, but this isn’t a deer. It’s a sage grouse, tail feathers fanned, sandwiched between two bold, black-lettered words that read, “SLOW DOWN.” The sign indicates I’m in the right area to shoot footage of the largest grouse in North America for the new...