This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Over the last century, increasing human populations and conversion of grassland to agriculture have had severe consequences for numbers of ...
ASHLAND, Kansas — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam the Great Plains. They once fed, nested, danced and mated in the ...
GLYNDON, Minn. - It is 6:50 a.m. at the Bluestem Prairie Scientific and Natural Area when the whooping, cackling, stomping and fluttering stops immediately. One second later, all 45 prairie chickens ...
A U.S. District Court in Texas has vacated a decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened and endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. It was a winding path to get such ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...
A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...
Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.
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