Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) Resource Center

Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) Resource Center

We love the LPC everyday, especially on Valentine’s Day! Lesser prairie chickens (LPC) once ranged all across the Southern Great Plains. Historically this area of the United States boasted both lesser and greater prairie chickens along with teeming herds of bison and pronghorn antelope, huge black-tailed prairie dog towns and mule deer in the wooded draws and canyons.

Lesser prairie chickens could be found in much of western Texas, western Oklahoma and Kansas, eastern New Mexico and southeast Colorado. This regional landscape, however, has seen many changes over the last 150 years, leading to an estimated 92% decline in this little grouse’s population. These losses are a direct result of the declining quality of habitat due to human activities such as conversion of native prairie to tilled agriculture, oil and gas exploration, urban development and suppression of naturally occurring fire.

READ MORE at http://lesserprairiechicken.com/

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VaBaytrader

Do they have Prairie chicken in ANWAR. Logical human growth means developing some resources. The efforts of companies like RS show how, resolutions for those impacts can be assured by a positive program by RS and the industry effort by environmental investors is making a huge difference in OUTCOMES.

Thanks RS.

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