Sentences with phrase «prairie chicken habitat»
Later, Duane worked as a soil scientist and even studied prairie chicken habitat with former students of Aldo Leopold.
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Scientists focused on prairie chicken habitat in the southwestern part of their distribution in New Mexico and West Texas.
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On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.
The team is conducting follow - up studies to test mitigation strategies that may improve habitat conditions for prairie chickens.
«The research will certainly aid with wind power site guidelines and with the development of mitigation strategies to enhance habitat conditions for the greater prairie chicken.»
The greater prairie chicken was once abundant across the central Plains, but populations have declined because of habitat loss and human development.
«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.
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.