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Research team launches sweeping lesser prairie-chicken predictive model study

September 13, 2013

Research team launches sweeping lesser prairie-chicken predictive model study

Research by wildlife scientists at Texas Tech University focusing on large-scale landscape and environmental changes could bring new hope to getting a better handle on the fate of the fast-disappearing lesser prairie-chicken. Scientists have estimated that the bird has experienced as much as a 97 percent decline in population size from historic levels.