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USDA, Landowners Work To Expand Prairie Chicken Habitat
Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:45:41 CDT
The USDA is working with landowners in Oklahoma and four other states to protect an increasingly rare bird-the lesser prairie chicken.
Keeping the bird off the endangered species list is a goal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Resource Conservation Service.
"Through the Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative, we're trying to implement practices that will help ranchers improve their grazing practices and improve their operation while at the same time benefitting the Lesser Prairie Chicken and benefitting the habitat of the Lesser Prairie Chicken," said Jon Ungerer, USDA NRCS Lesser Prairie Chicken coordinator.
Landowners like L.H. Webb from Gray County, Texas, have been receptive to the program.
"If the government could come to me, the NRCS, and say, if you do this, whether it's a food plot, or spray, or burn this area over here, or put a fence around this area over here. If you do this, that silver bullet, then the chickens will come back. I would do it if it was economically feasible," Webb said.
Click on the PLAY button in the video box below to hear more from Bob Ellison of the USDA.
Click here to listen to Ron Hays' recent interview with USDA Under Secretary of Agriculture, Harris Sherman, talking about the Working Lands for Wildlife iniative.
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