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and remove trees using mechanical tree removal and prescribed fire.
These efforts will benefit the following at-risk species in Nebraska: the greater prairie-
chicken, long-billed curlew, American burying beetle, regal fritillary, plains topminnow and
western prairie fringed orchid.
Project partners include Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever, Nebraska Grazing Lands Coalition,
Northern Prairies Land Trust, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture, Sandhills Task Force, Santee
Sioux Nation and The Nature Conservancy. The project includes several areas of the state
connecting to grasslands of South Dakota, Colorado, Kansas and the Santee Sioux Reservation.
Long-billed curlew,
Oglala National Grassland
