
Laura Gardner
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Jun 30, 2026
Everything That Happened Here
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Phoebe SmithHOST
And what can be done to, what sort of things can you do to help the species that's on sort of rapid decline?

Laura GardnerGUEST
Yeah, so one of the things is trying to maintain the habitat and the vegetation in the best state that it can be.

Laura GardnerGUEST
So that is one role that the bison do play, is trying to create those mosaics of habitats, so different areas of native grasses that are different heights and creating or enabling a diversity of forbs to be on the landscape that species like greater sage-grouse can benefit from.

Laura GardnerGUEST
We also have a program that tries to reduce benefits or human-caused benefits for predators like corvids, for example.

Laura GardnerGUEST
So great horned owls and your crows and your magpies and your ravens, they really like human structures, for example.

Laura GardnerGUEST
So buildings and fences and power poles and anything that they can really perch on and it just gives them that advantage in a landscape that they otherwise normally wouldn't have that advantage on so we do have an infrastructure removal program so obviously as a national park we do require some infrastructure on the landscape in terms of signage for example and like visitor centers and and obviously bison need fences to to some extent but there's also some infrastructure that was left over on the landscape since before it was a national park that we no longer need or maybe pastures that have been redesigned, for example.

Laura GardnerGUEST
So trying to, if there's a particular infrastructure that's not needed for humans on the landscape, then trying to remove those structures to restore that habitat back.

Phoebe SmithHOST
What's been the biggest success, would you say, of Grasslands in terms of the programs that you look after?