From the Emmy-winning journalist who documented disappearing salmon across the Northwest and recovering grizzlies in Greater Yellowstone, comes a high desert adventure with the largest grouse in North America. Greater sage grouse.

“We’ve explored the wild with abandon by chasing fin first and then fur,” says Kris Millgate, outdoor journalist and owner of Tight Line Media. “Only seems right to go all in for feathers next.”

Inland Northwest Toyota Dealers are partnering with Millgate as she travels the West’s high desert in search of a hard-to-find bird with a strut you’ll never tiring of watching.

“This will be the next great wildlife adventure from Tight Line Media,” says Travis Zmak, Teton Toyota managing partner. “We are continually proud to support Kris’s films as they expose audiences to the complexity of North American wildlife. Kris promotes conversations and education that ensure our youth will continue to have the opportunity to live with these animals and many others.”

Through fire, fence, drought and development watch the largest grouse in North America make its way with us in the way in the new wildlife documentary, Sage Wisdom West, premiering in Spring 2026.

The road trip for field production of Sage Wisdom wrapped in 2024 with support from Toyota and Four Wheel Campers. The edit phase of the finished film is ongoing. Please check back for updates.