ON THE HORIZON: December 2017, Issue 9
Posted by WAFWA on December 1, 2017
![]() “This is a new tool in our conservation toolbox that will enable us to advance conservation efforts for the lesser prairie-chicken,” said J.D. Strong, Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Director and Chair of the Lesser Prairie-chicken Initiative Council. “We’ve received significant support for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Range-wide Conservation Plan from industry and landowners, and we’ve also received support from various entities and conservation partners outside of the range-wide plan. We’re hopeful that this new program will provide another way for people who are interested in the bird’s long-term survival to get involved in its conservation.”READ MOREIt seemed an almost impossible task: re-create the historic path of a creek in Crater Lake National Park that was wiped off the landscape more than one hundred years ago. Determined conservation partners, tribal organizations, landowners, corporations and individuals all banded together to make it happen. WAFWA’s Western Native Trout Initiative was one of more than two dozen partners who collaborated to re-connect the historic channel between Sun Creek and Wood River to benefit an isolated population of the now-threatened Bull Trout and Interior Redband Trout. A short film created by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tells the remarkable, inspiring story.VIEW VIDEO ![]() |
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