Sentences with phrase «lesser prairie chicken»

Co-sponsored the «Lesser Prairie Chicken Voluntary Recovery Act of 2015,» or H.R. 659, which would remove Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken as threatened until at least 2020.

«Including the lesser prairie chicken on the endangered species list will diminish private land owners» control over their own property and threaten agriculture and energy jobs,» he explained.

Wind farms do impact sensitive species, such as the lesser prairie chicken.

As to my claim that several species could be pushed to extinction if extensive wind farms are build in their diminished habitat, on my side regarding lesser prairie chicken I have a refereed paper in BioScience.

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President Barack Obama's administration is under court order to decide by 30 September how to protect the bird: declare it an endangered species — the nuclear option in conservation — or opt for the less onerous conservation strategies that officials are testing on its fellow rangeland bird, the lesser prairie chicken.

Before European settlers arrived, the billion acres of grasses that blanketed the High Plains were home to pronghorn antelope and swift fox, lesser prairie chickens and burrowing owls as well as buffalo.

We don't have 55 million lesser prairie chickens, the fact that cats in the UK kill 55 million house sparrows and starlings doesn't mean that wind farms can't harm lesser prairie chickens, ferruginous hawks, and other sensitive species.

Well, given that the UK currently have NO lesser prairie chickens, it would be quite hard for windfarms to wipe them out.

Not exact matches

Increased temperatures and reduced humidity may lead to lesser prairie - chicken egg death or nest abandonment.

«Lesser prairie - chicken survival relies on the combination of habitat and climate, and larger areas of habitat provide more opportunities for them to survive a difficult climate,» said USGS scientist and study co-author Clint Boal.

Scientists looked at modeled predictions of climate change and reproductive data from lesser prairie - chickens from 2001 - 2011 to determine how weather conditions affect reproductive success in the Southern High Plains.

The study can be used by resource managers to identify and offset effects of changes in climate on the lesser prairie - chicken.

The lesser prairie - chicken has experienced widespread declines in abundance and distribution, with some estimates suggesting greater than a 90 percent decrease of the population.

This is the first study to examine how seasonal weather affects reproductive conditions of the lesser prairie - chicken.

«Results from this study are based on current climate projections, and it doesn't necessarily mean that lesser prairie - chickens will experience a population decline,» said Blake Grisham, Texas Tech University scientist and lead author of the study.

It's Not Easy Being Green: Wind Energy and a Declining Grassland Bird CL Pruett, MA Patten, DH Wolfe — BioScience, 2009 — Univ California Press Keywords: lesser prairie - chicken.