Mother Earth News and Friends4 Des 2020

Protecting the Prairie Chicken

In this episode of "Mother Earth News and Friends," we learn about the lesser prairie chicken, a beloved bird in the southern Plains of the United States whose population has dwindled over the years. But the good news is that people are working to save both the lesser prairie chicken and the delicate habitat it lives in. We chat with Mike Ford of The Conservation Fund and Dirac Twidwell of the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative to learn more.

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Additional music in the podcast is "Mountain Sun," "Thingmajig," and "One Fine Day" by Jason Shaw.

Audio of the lesser prairie chicken provided by Andy Lawrence.

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