Ep. 360: The World Coming to You on a Wing
The MeatEater Podcast
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Snow Geese and the Explosion of Agriculture in the Mid West
A hundred years ago, snow geese were this small population of birds that nested on the tundra and then end up wintering in a sliver of habitat in coastal xas and louisiana. Fast forward to the 19 twenties, thirties and forties, as we see small grain kind of explode across the plains and places like kansas and iowa. And what happens is, snowgees respond positively to that. Ah, their population starts exploding. Because now, as they make this crazy treck right, which we discussed in the a adometer duck report, where we talked about how much,. you know, the average snow goose flies 20 and a half miles
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