North American Grouse Partnership with Ted Koch Episode 285

In this episode of Leupold's Hunt Talk Radio, Randy interviews Ted Koch, Executive Director of the North American Grouse Partnership, about the rapid decline of prairie grouse, particularly the Lesser Prairie Chicken, due to large-scale grassland loss. They discuss how most remaining habitat is on private land, where economic pressures often discourage conservation even among landowners who value it. Rather than relying only on regulation through the Endangered Species Act, they advocate for market-based incentive alignment that pay ranchers for ecosystem services like habitat, water, and soil health. Long-term conservation success depends on keeping ranching viable while working collaboratively with private landowners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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North American Grouse Partnership with Ted Koch Episode 285 is an episode from Hunt Talk Radio, Randy Newberg Unfiltered | Hunting | Conservation | Politics | Tactics by Randy Newberg.

This episode is 92:15 long.

This episode was published on Apr 11, 2026.

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