Author: Winifred B. KesslerPublisher:
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Category : Attwater Prairie Chicken National Refuge
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Attwater Prairie Chicken Ecology in Relation to Agricultural and Range Management Practices
Author: Winifred B. KesslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Attwater Prairie Chicken National Refuge
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Ecology of Attwater's Prairie Chicken in Relation to Land Management Practices on the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
Author: Michael Eugene MorrowPublisher:
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Category : Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Attwater's Prairie Chicken Recovery Plan
Author: Attwater's Prairie Chicken Recovery TeamPublisher:
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Category : Endangered species
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Booming from the Mists of Nowhere
Author: Greg HochPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609383885
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
For ten months of the year, the prairie-chicken’s drab colors allow it to disappear into the landscape. However, in April and May this grouse is one of the most outrageously flamboyant birds in North America. Competing with each other for the attention of females, males gather before dawn in an explosion of sights and sounds—“booming from the mists of nowhere,” as Aldo Leopold wrote decades ago. There’s nothing else like it, and it is perilously close to being lost. In this book, ecologist Greg Hoch shows that we can ensure that this iconic bird flourishes once again. Skillfully interweaving lyrical accounts from early settlers, hunters, and pioneer naturalists with recent scientific research on the grouse and its favored grasslands, Hoch reveals that the prairie-chicken played a key role in the American settlement of the Midwest. Many hungry pioneers regularly shot and ate the bird, as well as trapping hundreds of thousands, shipping them eastward by the trainload for coastal suppers. As a result of both hunting and habitat loss, the bird’s numbers plummeted to extinction across 90 percent of its original habitat. Iowa, whose tallgrass prairies formed the very center of the greater prairie-chicken’s range, no longer supports a native population of the bird most symbolic of prairie habitat. The steep decline in the prairie-chicken population is one of the great tragedies of twentieth-century wildlife management and agricultural practices. However, Hoch gives us reason for optimism. These birds can thrive in agriculturally productive grasslands. Careful grazing, reduced use of pesticides, well-placed wildlife corridors, planned burning, higher plant, animal, and insect diversity: these are the keys. If enough blocks of healthy grasslands are scattered over the midwestern landscape, there will be prairie-chickens—and many of their fellow creatures of the tall grasses. Farmers, ranchers, conservationists, and citizens can reverse the decline of grassland birds and insure that future generations will hear the booming of the prairie-chicken.
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServicePublisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Herbicides and Wildlife Habitat
Author: Proceedings of the First Welder Wildlife Symposium
Author: Rob and Bessie Welder Wildlife FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Management Techniques for the Greater Prairie-chicken
Author: Bart L. ProsePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Rangeland Resources Research
Author: Wildlife Review
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Wild life, Conservation of
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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