Ep. 147 - Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 147: Ted Koch on the Lesser Prairie Chicken and Grasslands Conservation

Will we act now to save America’s iconic grasslands? The southern population of the lesser prairie chicken has been listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as endangered, a listing that will come as no surprise to anyone who has been following the fate of this gamebird and its habitat on the southern Great Plains. But this conversation with Ted Koch, a former endangered species biologist, executive director of the North American Grouse Partnership, and chair of BHA’s North American board of directors, is not just about lesser prairie chickens; it is about a resounding failure in conservation and an opportunity to forge a new path to honor and protect America’s grasslands and all their attendant species. As goes the lesser prairie chicken so goes the American grassland ecosystem, and there is absolutely no reason to accept the loss of either one.

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0:00.0	Whether you like the idea or not there's going to be a government in this country
0:06.2	somewhat uniquely we get to choose what that government does yeah yeah and what it
0:10.9	focuses on but only if you show up only if you show up, that's right.
0:15.4	Great point.
0:17.2	Polls, and if you put the names of your two senators
0:20.1	and Congress putterson and governor in your address book so you can reach out to them at a moment's notice.
0:27.0	So 30 years ago we used the Farm Bill to do this.
0:31.0	We've already done it once.
0:32.0	Surely we can at least do that again if not more.
0:35.2	If the Biden administration told these agency heads, save lesser Perry chickens from
0:41.4	extinction, you know what? They get it done.
0:45.0	Especially if they listened to the landowner leaders from the lesser
0:48.8	prairie chicken landowner alliance who could say look please don't do it
0:51.9	this way, do it that way.
0:53.7	And I think these agency heads would say, okay,
0:56.4	and we would get it done.
0:57.2	I mean, this is totally doable.
1:00.2	We can do this.
1:14.0	Hey everybody, Hal hearing, Back Country Hunters and Anglers podcast and Blast. Thank you. For his long support of this podcast. Without Philson, I don't get to do what I want to do with it.
1:18.0	And I've had a mighty good time over the last couple years
1:22.0	thanks to their support. So I'd ask everybody to check
1:25.9	out Filson.com or your local outdoor retailers. If you know the history is for 125 years,
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