Prairie Chickens - Without Fear of the Feds What Candidate Conservation Agreements are and how they protect landowners from government interference if they help with prairie Chicken conservation. Tiny Town Celebrates Tiny Bird - The small enclave of Karval, Colorado, along the state’s eastern plains, is home to the nation’s only Mountain Plover Festival. The festival takes place April 26th through the 28th. Mountain Plovers – Shorebirds of the Prairie Mountain Plovers are a shorebird species that, unlike their name suggests, spend no time in the mountains or at the shore. Rancher Receives High Distinction for Bird Conservation - Rancher Sue Selman of Buffalo receives the Audubon Society’s highest distinction for bird conservation. Familiar Face Helps Landowners Conserve Prairie - Landowners in eastern New Mexico have a familiar face to turn to for conservation advice The Steel Fork Ranch - Louis Martin is the new manager of The Steel Fork Ranch in Lincoln County, Colorado find out how and why he is the man for the job Waves of Cranes Arriving on the North Platte - One of the best places to see them in the thousands is along the North Platte SAFE Coming to a USDA Service Center Near You - Several USDA service centers in the PLJV region are now signing up landowners for the State Acres for Wildlife Enhancement CRP initiatives. These initiatives help conserve at-risk wildlife species and habitats like lesser prairie-chickens and playas. Conserving Playas Makes Good Business sense - Conserving playas simply makes good business sense, just ask landowner Bob Pearson of Spe Prairie Birds to Suffer if CRP Returns to Crops - The Conservation Reserve Program provides a lifeline to many bird species of the prairie. If CRP lands were to return to crops, these birds would pay the price.Megan McLachlan tells us why. Agricultural Communities Responding to Climate Change - Ag communities are responding to climate change– from carbon sequestration to recycling water to raising energy from the sun. New Texas Nature Preserve Protects Prairie Chickens - The Nature Conservancy of Texas recently purchased the 6,000-acre Fitzgerald Ranch in the High Plains of West Texas to protect habitat for lesser prairie chickens and other native wildlife found in the region. Carbon Banking: The New Agricultural Commodity - A new commodity that helps reduce global warming – carbon banking. Landowners are paid for the amount of carbon stored on their land through prairie restoration and other eco-friendly practices. Landowner Rick Jackson explains how carbon banking is working for him. Banking on Prairies to Capture Carbon - One way to help reduce greenhouse gas at the same time benefit wildlife is to protect and restore native prairie.
The Heat is on for Birds and Wetlands in the Age of Global Warming - Scientists are finding that rising global temperatures are affecting when and where birds migrate, and may contribute to the decline of many species and increases in others. Keen Eyes Keeping Count of Ducks - The mid-winter waterfowl survey is a national count of ducks and geese that takes place the first week of January each year.Waterfowl biologists from across the nation take to the skies, flying small planes over wetland Landowner Larry Snyder - Larry Snyder explains why he, his brother and father decided to protect the wetlands. New Photo Book Promotes Prairie Conservation - Dave Showalters' book Prairie Thunder sheds light on the conservation challenges facing the Colorado Prairie. Making a bird list and checking it twice - Stumped for something different to do
this holiday season? Why not join a Christmas Bird Count? In its 108th year, the Christmas Bird Count brings together novice and expert birders
for one of the biggest surveys
