A call to arms in support of one of the few native game birds

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THE PRAIRIE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE

The lesser prairie chicken is a little bird with big enemies

chadlove.substack.com

You can have both wildness and people inhabiting the same space, but you can’t do it without a baseline of protection for that which is defenseless against those powerful forces who attempt to conflate unrestrained greed and destruction with personal freedom.

And sadly, for both my favorite drab little prairie bird and my favorite region where it is making its last stand, those powerful forces now seem inexorable.

 

[Oak]

Jonathan Reitz with CPW provided an update on Lesser Prairie-Chicken status and conservation efforts in Colorado at the November Commission meeting. It's an informative, if sobering, presentation.

 

[Oak]

Jonathan finishes the presentation with a fairly positive outlook on their conservation efforts. I wonder how his feelings have changed today given the conservation tools he highlighted at that time.

 

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Jonathan Reitz with CPW provided an update on Lesser Prairie-Chicken status and conservation efforts in Colorado at the November Commission meeting. It's an informative, if sobering, presentation.

that's a great presentation Oak, I had no idea about the history of the bird, thanks for sharing.

 

[WildWill]

In college as a intern for the ODWC I use to help run the Prarie chicken tours. We'd load up people in trailers with bench seating and drive them out so they could watch/photograph the show at the handful of areas that still held populations. In 20 years those areas aren't doing better or making headway. A combo of ONG, windfarms, modern farming practices, and increased predators (especially birds of prey) makes these birds future uncertain. It's a shame they're a neat bird and cool part of the southern plains ecosystem.