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Kansas lesser prairie chicken loses endangered species act protections after Texas court order  • Kansas Reflector The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory for Great Plains petroleum and...

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Humanity is rapidly depleting water and much of the world is getting drier Research shows vast portions of the world are losing fresh water and getting drier. Groundwater depletion accounts for two-thirds of the continents' water losses, contributing to rising oceans.

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

It’s Monday & a holiday! So here’s a special Monarch Monday Prairie Zen for you! Wading through the tall, yellow sunflowers, following 2 Monarch butterflies feeding on Meadow Blazingstars on the North Dakota prairie. #monarch #butterflies #pollinators #northdakota #prairie

Looking back over summer photos. What was your favourite thing about this summer on your part of the prairie? #prairie

Career opportunity with American Prairie
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New preserve on Purgatoire River in Southeastern Colorado established to restore prairie habitat Nearly a mile of riverfront in Bent County is now a preserve for prairie wildlife and plants. Nonetheless, there’s much work to do at the new Purgatoire River Preserve.

Grasslands are getting some love from the media in southern Colorado! Nice work by @southernplainslt.bsky.social and @coloradopublic.bsky.social www.cpr.org/2025/07/01/p...

This is an excellent and entertaining post expounding on the virtues of the prairie!

basically what you put between a grassland and a mountain so they don't argue 😂

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An excellent article!

Great opportunity to secure funding for stewardship projects! view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx...

Cold, dark, & rainy on the North Dakota prairie today so yes, I need a wildflower. A beginning Mountain Douglasia. Flower Friday! I luv the bright pink flowers & the deep red leaves. #wildflowers #wandering #montana #prairie

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Don't miss our next webinar, a debrief of the Conata Basin emergency response by Lindsey Sterling Krank, who was on the ground during the plague outbreak last year. Register free at plainsconservation.org/how-effectiv...

The Prairie Dog Coalition is hiring a Development and Outreach Coordinator! www.prairiedogcoalition.org/job-opportun...

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Yellowstone bison come to Canada Mosquito Grizzly Bear's Head Lean Man First Nation in Saskatchewan welcomes a family group of 11 plains bison from Yellowstone National Park, a gift from Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana.

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Mountain West could be key for prairie dog conservation, study finds Researchers found high potential for conservation in the grasslands of eastern Montana and Wyoming, southeastern Colorado and northern New Mexico.

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These unique black-footed ferrets are at the edge of extinction. Trump's cuts may well do them in. "So much conservation work is happening bare-bones right now."

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This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it. Job cuts and frozen funding could inch one of the world’s rarest species even closer to extinction.

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Every fall, the call of the winter range stirs in the herd. They know it’s time to venture across the Cheyenne River and migrate to a vast 26,000 acre landscape that their ancestors ruled for thousands of years.
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YouTube video by Defenders of Wildlife Celebrating the First International Bison Transfer

Great trans-border collaboration bringing bison home www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPzr... #prairie #canada

An important message in some very trying times! Joy as an act of resistance.

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