Author: Gerald J. HorakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greater prairie chicken
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Information on the history and distribution of prairie chickens in Kansas.
Kansas Prairie Chickens
Author: Gerald J. HorakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greater prairie chicken
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Information on the history and distribution of prairie chickens in Kansas.
Prairie Chickens of Kansas
Author: Maurice F. BakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prairie chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Habitat Management for Prairie Chicken in Kansas
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greater prairie chicken
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Management of Greater Prairie Chicken in Kansas
Author: Jerry HorakPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greater prairie chicken
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens
Author: David A. HaukosPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1482240238
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryLesser Prairie-Chickens have experienced substantial declines in terms of population and the extent of area that they occupy. While they are an elusive species, making it difficult at times to monitor them, current evidence indicates that they have been persistently
A Summary of Recent Research in Kansas on the Lesser Prairie Chicken
Author: Randy RodgersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prairie chickens
Languages : en
Pages : 3
Book Description
A Demographic Analysis of Lesser Prairie-chicken Populations in Southwestern Kansas
Author: Christian Andrew HagenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) habitat and populations have been reduced range-wide by more than 90% since the turn of [the] 20th Century. Population indices in Kansas reflected the range-wide trends. The rate of habitat loss slowed considerably starting in the 1980s, but populations have continued to decline in the state. To aid in the conservation of this "warranted but precluded" threatened species, more information is needed on the basic and applied population ecology of this prairie grouse. The present research was initiated to collect field data for 3-years and synthesize 6-years of data from Federal Aid projects in southwestern Kansas.
Status, Ecology, and Management of the Lesser Prairie Chicken
Author: Maple Andrew TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesser prairie chicken
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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.
Author: Maurice F. Baker