A pair of local bird species are in trouble and lecturer David Moulton explained how Southern Maryland farmers can go a long way toward helping them during the “Saving Grassland
Given the sudden and vehement uptick in climate-change disasters across the globe, we likely can expect novels with a focus on environmental issues to pop up with ever-increasing frequency. Two recent entries into the eco-fiction oeuvre, Michael Christie’s Canada Reads finalist Greenwood and Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize
When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. “It’s part of the flora and fauna of our Great Plains and it’s beautiful to hear,” says Cammack, 42, a sixth-generation rancher who raises cattle on 10,000 acres (4,047 hectares) of mostly unaltered native grasslands. “There are quite a few I don’t see any more and I don’t know for sure why,” says Cammack's 92-year-old grandfather, Floyd.
The grassland birds that bring sweet song to North America's prairie are in decline, with habitat loss, land degradation and climate change threatening what's left of a once-vast ecosystem. The report came even as massive evacuations are happening in the eastern Punjab province as monsoon rains cause new flooding.
The $5,000 grant supports a project to protect Bobolinks and other grassland birds by enhancing habitat at SRLT’s Richardson Memorial Preserve in Unity and educational outreach in partnership with Somerset