Blane Klemek Outdoors: Minnesota’s rare prairie chickens still dance among the grassland

Blane Klemek Outdoors: Minnesota’s rare prairie chickens still dance among the grassland

Minnesota, with its four ecological provinces — Tallgrass Aspen Parklands, Prairie Parkland, Laurentian Mixed Forest and Eastern Broadleaf Forest — is replete with floristic and faunal diversity. For this reason, our great state is home to numerous and varied species of wildlife, including an array of grouse and grouse-like species of avifauna. Among the many species of grouse and members of the family is a species of special concern, the greate…