Popular bobolink spurs new conservation model

Because of shrinking habitat lost to development and disrupted by intensive new farming practices, the bobolink population has declined 75 percent over the last half century in the northeast. A research team from the University of Vermont and the University of Connecticut had a question: Would the public be willing to pay landowners directly to conserve the open grassland this charismatic species needs to survive? 

PUBLISHED

09-09-2014
Jeffrey Wakefield and Sally McCay
Bird on the Rebound