Before the wildfires became such a dominant 2020 issue Jason Fidorra talked
with me on the Bird Banter Podcast about how the disruption of the native
relatively fire resistant shrub-steppe habitat leading to non-native grass
dominance has created a landscape so much more prone to very hot, very
large fires instead of the smaller patchy fires natural in undisturbed
shrub-steppe areas. A recent email chain with the WOS board talks of
devastating consequences for Greater Sage Grouse and other sage requiring
species, and so this seemed like a good time to cut the segment of the
podcast where Jason talks about fires and make a short You Tube audio clip
on that topic. If interested I posted it here:

ttps://youtu.be/saXvERoVOGc <https://youtu.be/saXvERoVOGc>


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Ed Pullen
Listen to my podcast at The Bird Banter Podcast
<https://birdbanter.podbean.com/e/the-bird-banter-podcast-episode-2-with-ken-brown/>
available
on iTunes podcast store and other feeds.
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