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Published May 10, 2009, 12:00 AM

Listening for the prairie chicken


Prairie chickens were once abundant in Minnesota prior to the 1940s, but when the grasslands of the state disap-peared, so did the birds. In 1999, the Minnesota DNR re-introduced prairie chickens into the Upper Minnesota River Valley of the state, but their numbers have been declining in the project area.
Read the article: Slideshow: Sounds of the prairie