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Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to ...
President Joe Biden has vetoed Republican-sponsored bills to undo federal protections for two endangered species that have seen their populations plummet over the years: the lesser prairie chicken ...
This government-led project was unusual for an at-risk species in that it was launched with the expressed intent to promote the long-term sustainability of ranching operations while improving the population and occupied territory of the lesser prairie-chicken. [58] Conservation groups were keen on collaborative agreements not only for the ...
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to delist the lesser prairie-chicken from the Endangered Species Act in an attempt to strip the species of federal protections and pave the way ...
The lesser prairie-chicken's habitat has been reduced by 85%, and their population has declined by about 97% since 1800, in part due to unrestricted hunting. [7] Of the remaining patches of suitable habitat, only around 0.1% are sufficiently contiguous to sustain even a minimum population of the birds.
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a cost-share and rental payment program of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the program, the government pays farmers to take certain agriculturally used croplands out of production and convert them to vegetative cover, such as cultivated or native bunchgrasses and grasslands, wildlife and pollinators food and shelter plantings ...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service moved to classify the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas as threatened, increasing the bird's legal protection.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), an agency of the USDA, provides conservation technical assistance and other resources to Limited Resource Farmers and Ranchers who, when compared to other farmers in a given area, have particular disadvantages regarding access to USDA program assistance. [4]