2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference

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9/25/2018 | 1:55 PM - 2:10 PM | Managing for Recovery of a Prairie Icon: The Future of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Management | Eccles Conference Center Auditorium

Managing for Recovery of a Prairie Icon: The Future of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Management

The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is an iconic species of the southern Great Plains. However, population and habitat declines have necessitated conservation actions across the bird’s range. Collaborative partnerships are key to managing and conserving the species. One such partnership between state wildlife management agencies has resulted in a translocation effort of lesser prairie-chickens from the shortgrass prairie of northwestern Kansas to the sand sagebrush ecoregion of southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. The project has two goals. The first goal is to augment limited populations in a region that was historically the stronghold for lesser prairie-chicken populations, and the second is to assess the feasibility of translocations as a management tool for restoring lesser prairie-chicken populations. We will discuss the process of developing this project within the eco-regional framework of the Lesser Prairie-chicken Range-wide Conservation Plan, as well as the highlight unique partnership between Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism, the United States Forest Service, and Kansas State University. We will discuss the project goals and objectives, methods, and preliminary results from the first two years of the translocation effort.

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Liza Rossi (), Colorado Parks and Wildlife, liza.rossi@state.co.us;