Nearly $19M to help save Nebraska prairie, state bird, dancing chickens

LINCOLN — A nearly $19 million financial boost is coming to help rescue Nebraska grasslands.

“Unprecedented” is how the state grant coordinator, Laura Rubeck, described the investment by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service to help Nebraska landowners implement conservation practices that maintain productive and tree-free grasslands.

Additional partners in the conservation program dubbed Growing and Expanding Nebraska’s Grasslands Cores include the Grand Island-based Rainwater Basin Joint Venture and …