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Grouse is an eight part podcast hosted by Ashley Ahearn and produced by BirdNote and Boise State Public Radio. In each episode Ahearn spends about twenty minutes discussing the greater sage-grouse and various threats to the bird's population.
After reporting on the Standing Rock protests for NPR and seeing that the Dakota Access Pipeline was built despite the protests, Ahearn decided to quit her job and move to rural Winthrop Valley, Washington. [1] [2] The move marked a change in Ahearn's lifestyle, from a life in the city to living in a farmhouse and riding horses. [3] Ahearn also experienced a change in the political demographic from liberal to conservative. [4] Ahearn's experiences drove the story of the podcast, which she notes as a big change from her work at NPR. [5] The podcast focuses on the greater sage-grouse and how the species is being threatened by a variety of changes. [6] [7] Ahearn addresses the fact that climate change is leading to an increase in wildfires that have destroyed sage grouse habitats. [8]
The podcast was produced by BirdNote and Boise State Public Radio. [9] The podcast was an eight part series. [10] Each episode is roughly twenty minutes in length. [11]
Steve Greene of Indiewire called the show "a natural tapestry that melds wide-scope and up-close considerations." [12]
The greater sage-grouse, also known as the sagehen, is the largest grouse in North America. Its range is sagebrush country in the western United States and southern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. It was known as simply the sage grouse until the Gunnison sage-grouse was recognized as a separate species in 2000. The Mono Basin population of sage grouse may also be distinct.
The Gunnison grouse, Gunnison sage-grouse or lesser sage-grouse is a species of grouse endemic to the United States. It is similar to the closely related greater sage-grouse in appearance, but about a third smaller in size, with much thicker plumes behind the head; it also has a less elaborate courtship dance. It is restricted in range to southwestern Colorado and extreme southeastern Utah, with the largest population residing in the Gunnison Basin region in Colorado. Despite being native to a country where the avifauna is relatively well known, it was overlooked until the 1990s due to the similarities with the sage grouse, and only described as a new species in 2000—making it the first new avian species to be described from the USA since the 19th century. The description of C. minimus as a separate species is supported by a molecular study of genetic variation, showing that gene flow between the large-bodied and the small-bodied birds is absent.
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