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Bill Graham
Dry weather and good nesting and feeding habitat brought surge in brood counts and number of chicks reaching self-reliant size.
KANSAS CITY Mo -- Missouri’s endangered prairie chickens got a major lift this summer from dry weather in June and continued refinement in how native grasslands are managed.
The Missouri population dipped to a critically low number of about 100 prairie chickens sighted on mating grounds this spring, in a state that once had hundreds of thousands. However, favorable weather helped hens on MDC-managed prairies hatch and rear their young this summer.
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Bill Graham
Dry weather and good nesting and feeding habitat brought surge in brood counts and number of chicks reaching self-reliant size.
KANSAS CITY Mo -- Missouri’s endangered prairie chickens got a major lift this summer from dry weather in June and continued refinement in how native grasslands are managed.
The Missouri population dipped to a critically low number of about 100 prairie chickens sighted on mating grounds this spring, in a state that once had hundreds of thousands. However, favorable weather helped hens on MDC-managed prairies hatch and rear their young this summer.
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