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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

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We've Just Lost the Eastern Prairie Chicken

The story kind of unfolds this way. It's the 1930s. We have just lost the Eastern Prairie chicken, the Heath hand. And so that bird was gone by 1931. So people acted as if this is just collateral damage and what can you do, you know, and making our fortunes. But we were down to the last 16 whooping cranes; trumpeter swans were almost gone. In fact, one of our sort of first endangered species kind of act that we passed is the Bald Eagle Protection Act in 1940.

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