Dr. Roland Kays

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Science Friday · Surveying wildlife along Lewis and Clark's route, 220 years later · 28 May 2026 podcast

And that has allowed a lot of populations to come back to where they're much better today.

What we're running to now are problems of crowded planet.

Where, you know, can we have oil infrastructure?

Can we have food production and still share the landscape with wildlife?

So those are the challenges that we're looking at moving forward.

Yeah.

So along the way, we're visiting with local experts who know what's going on on the ground better.

And we just visited with Dr. Amanda Cheeseman at South Dakota State University.

And she was telling us more about prairie dogs, which it turns out have lost like 90 some percent of their range and are still being exterminated on public lands with public funds, which is just crazy to me that this native animal that, you know, what do they do that's so bad?

They eat grass.

And so people are concerned about the competition with cattle.

We've got plenty of cattle.

Like, let's make room for these prairie dogs.

And, you know, Amanda said, I think prairie dogs need a new PR team.

And so we're trying to get in touch with a copy bar, a PR team, because they seem to be doing great.

And we want to get them on the prairie dogs.

You know, they might like the hot springs.

I think you're hired for the PR team.

We'll round up some prairie dogs and find a hot spring.

OK, so we've been doing these paddles along the river, you know, some of the important places.

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