ASHLAND — Staking out the elusive and rapidly disappearing lesser prairie chicken involves a stealthy 5:30 a.m. entry into a rebar-fortified bird blind, freezing into place as the sun rises and the birds begin to strut here and there, popcorning in an age-old mating dance. Any lesser prairie chicken that has made it into the […] The post The lesser prairie chicken is dying. Kansas experts say the last of the prairie will go with it. appeared first on Oklahoma Voice.
ASHLAND — Staking out the elusive and rapidly disappearing lesser prairie chicken involves a stealthy 5:30 a.m. entry into a rebar-fortified bird blind, freezing into place as the sun rises and the birds begin to strut here and there, popcorning in an age-old mating dance. Any lesser prairie chicken that has made it into the […] The post The lesser prairie chicken is dying. Kansas experts say the last of the prairie will go with it. appeared first on Kansas Reflector.
CEDAR FALLS — Black Hawk County Conservation staff will host Daryl Smith, emeritus professor of biology and the Tallgrass Prairie Center at the University of Northern Iowa, for the next
A growing herd of 250 bison, re-introduced at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge to help restore toxic wasteland to the native short-grass prairie, often descends through a floodplain to reach First Creek and cross to the northern half of the refuge.