birds Yellow-headed Blackbird -> Great Plains
bison Tatanka: About Bison Samuel Walking Coyote, Charles Allard, Michel Pablo. ABS disbanded 1935, re 2005; < 1.5% not livestock hybrid. P. 259 pipe dream.
NOG Audubon, Ducks Unlimited
fragmentation woodland & wetland also fragmented
species-area 1 ha=2.5-acre: 0.2 ha=0.5 a.; 1.9 billion ha=4.6 b.a.
island mangrove islands Florida Keys: fumigated arthropod, recover rate = distance from mainland (sizes were all similar)
fragmented This is Amazon Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project.
energy 'sciencenetlinks.com/science-news/science-updates/killer-windows/|Killer Windows and Birds|American Association for the Advancement of Science|'
conservation NACHUSA=Nature; Flint Hills=KS Osage Plains=OK(too rocky) Sand Hills=NE. Midewin, Shawnee
CRP Conservation Reserve Program marginal farmland -> grasses 30 M acres.
relic IPP rails to trails - West Chicago Prairie: RR; 1929 stockyards.
stepping_stones OK for flying birds/insects/pollen
mitigation Otter Creek mitigation project (St. Charles) Springbrook Prairie Wetland Mitigation Project(EXT) Springbrook 3/1 ratio up to 10/1
Wetlands Restoration 101: Drainage Tile Removal Googlemap from ch06/vernal. Tiles have holes top, lower than water table.
ecotourism "Karney" near Sand Hills; Soybeans not good for goose Kearney, Nebraska: Sandhill Crane ecotourism
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