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The greater prairie-chicken was almost extinct in the 1930s due to hunting pressure and habitat loss. In Illinois alone, in the 1800s, the prairie-chicken numbered in the millions. It was a popular game bird, and like many prairie birds, which have also suffered massive habitat loss, it is now on the verge of extinction, with the wild bird ...
The Cimarron Grassland has a population of rare lesser prairie chickens and has two viewing areas. The males perform their courting rituals from mid-March until early June. Elk were reintroduced into the Grassland in 1981 and a herd of 50 is maintained. Hunting by special permit is sometimes allowed to thin the herd. [10] [11]
The other preserves in Kansas, are the 17-square-mile (44 km 2) Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in northern Chase County near Strong City, [7] [8] the Flint Hills Tallgrass Prairie Preserve east of Cassoday, "the Prairie Chicken Capital of the World", [9] and the Konza Prairie, which is managed as a tallgrass prairie biological research ...
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 ...
The Department of Natural Resources will host a public meeting Jan. 18 on the future of prairie chicken management in Wisconsin and is seeking public comment through Feb. 18.
Aug. 15—ST. PAUL — Friday, Aug. 18, is the deadline to apply for Minnesota's special youth deer hunts and the northwest Minnesota prairie chicken season, the Department of Natural Resources ...
Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History (University Press of Kansas, 2011) 274 pp. Danbom, David B. Sod Busting: How families made farms on the 19th-century Plains (2014) Drummond, Mark A., et al. "Land change variability and human–environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains." Land use policy 29.3 (2012): 710–723. online; Eagan ...
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.