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Common Ground
by Adam Riggsbee
When Ranchers Prosper, The Prairie Thrives Welcome to the official Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Podcast dedicated to saving the Great American Prairie and the Lesser Prairie Chicken with market-based solutions to biological problems, without all the bureaucracy. Real Solutions, For Real People in Real Places. What if the best way to protect one of America’s most iconic prairie species wasn’t more regulation, but straight-up market incentives that pay ranchers what their land is actually worth? We cut through the noise to talk real solutions: permanent conservation easements on private ranches, mitigation banking that works for everyone, and private capital that keeps working ranches working while securing high-quality habitat forever. You’ll hear from the ranchers who’ve done the deals for their multi-generation families wh
Episodes
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You Can Now Destroy Habitat, Legally: The New Endangered Species Rule, Explained
This Summer, the federal government didn't just change the definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act. They removed it entirely. For fifty years, destroying a species' habitat counted as harming it. As of this rule change, it doesn't. No dead body, no take. And for the lesser prairie...
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This Award-Winning Kansas Ranch Looks Like the Prairie Did Before the Wagons Went West
Some of the best-preserved native prairie left in America isn't in a park. It's a working cattle ranch. Stacy Hoeme's land in western Kansas looks like the southern Great Plains did generations ago: native, never-plowed grass rolling to the horizon, and it's teeming with wildlife, from one of the...
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THE GRAND BARGAIN, SCOTT CITY, KANSAS MAGIC | How "250 for 250" Was Born on Hoeme Ranch
This is the episode where 250 for 250 was named. Adam Riggsbee, Wayne Walker, and John Preyer sat down in Kansas — at the Hoeme family's working ranch — and laid out the case for a federal procurement model that could permanently protect 250,000 acres of native prairie habitat by America's 250th...
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"If We Don't Save Ranching, We Won't Save the Prairie" | 30 Year U.S. Fish & Wildlife Vet
Ted Koch spent 30 years inside the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service deciding which species got listed and which didn't. Today he runs the North American Grouse Partnership and helped stand up the Lesser Prairie Chicken Landowner Alliance — a group of ranchers who don't want subsidies, don't want...
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USA's Bday Gift: $1 Trillion in Energy Investment & 250,000 Acres of Working Prairie
In this episode, Adam and LPC Conservation Partner John "JP" Preyer break down their groundbreaking "250 for 250" initiative — 250,000 acres of permanent lesser prairie chicken habitat conservation on working ranches by America's 250th birthday. They explain how to use already-appropriated USDA...
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250 For 250 | The Grand Bargain: Recovery Acres, IRA Funds & the Listing Decision
The lesser prairie chicken has fewer than 28,000 individuals left and has been caught in a regulatory loop since 1998 — listed, delisted, listed again, and delisted again. In Episode 2 of Finding Common Ground, Wayne Walker and Adam Riggsbee make the case for why the credit market alone will…
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What is Conservation Banking?
Welcome to, "Finding Common Ground" the official Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Podcast! As the Lesser Prairie-Chicken was officially delisted from the ESA again in early 2026, the Colorado Power Pathway’s massive transmission buildout is accelerating across the southern Great Plains, yet...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
When Ranchers Prosper, The Prairie Thrives
Welcome to the official Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Podcast dedicated to saving the Great American Prairie and the Lesser Prairie Chicken with market-based solutions to biological problems, without all the bureaucracy.
Real Solutions, For Real People in Real Places.
What if the best way to protect one of America’s most iconic prairie species wasn’t more regulation, but straight-up market incentives that pay ranchers what their land is actually worth?
We cut through the noise to talk real solutions: permanent conservation easements on private ranches, mitigation banking that works for everyone, and private capital that keeps working ranches working while securing high-quality habitat forever.
You’ll hear from the ranchers who’ve done the deals for their multi-generation families wh
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Adam Riggsbee
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When Ranchers Prosper, The Prairie Thrives Welcome to the official Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Podcast dedicated to saving the Great American Prairie and the Lesser Prairie Chicken with market-based solutions to biological problems, without all the bureaucracy. Real Solutions, For Real...
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