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Host of the nature & environment podcast Up From Dust. | Enviro reporter for Harvest Public Media, based at KCUR in Kansas City.
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In the fight to save prairies, some Great Plains ranchers embrace a new landscape – with goats

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By Celia Llopis-Jepsen Verified
| Humanities Desk
Since the plants keep spreading, McKiernan said, the next step would be to fly a plane or drone overhead and coat the whole area with chemicals, which he won’t do. “It’ll kill the legumes, it’ll kill the native forbs (wildflowers). It will kill every plant that isn’t grass,” he said. “Why would we spend that money and create this environmental impact that we don’t even know the extent of?” And based on his experience, the woody plants would simply return a few years later.
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In the fight to save prairies, some Great Plains ranchers embrace a new landscape – with goats

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By Celia Llopis-Jepsen Verified
| High Plains Public Radio Verified
Alex McKiernan and Chloe Diegel have plenty of reasons to keep their more than 800 acres near the Nebraska-Kansas border from turning into shrubland and woods. The land consists of two increasingly rare kinds of landscape — tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, a kind of grassland dotted with centuries-old bur oaks. It's a place where the ranching family can graze cattle alongside native wildlife, and that matters to them.
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In the fight to save prairies, some Great Plains ranchers embrace a new landscape – with goats

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By Celia Llopis-Jepsen Verified
| KMUW-FM (Wichita, KS) Verified
Alex McKiernan and Chloe Diegel have plenty of reasons to keep their more than 800 acres near the Nebraska-Kansas border from turning into shrubland and woods. The land consists of two increasingly rare kinds of landscape — tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, a kind of grassland dotted with centuries-old bur oaks. It's a place where the ranching family can graze cattle alongside native wildlife, and that matters to them.
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