250 For 250 | The Grand Bargain: Recovery Acres, IRA Funds & the Listing Decision

The lesser prairie chicken has fewer than 28,000 individuals left and has been caught in a regulatory loop since 1998 — listed, delisted, listed again, and delisted again. In Episode 2 of Finding Common Ground, Wayne Walker and Adam Riggsbee make the case for why the credit market alone will never get the bird to recovery, and what a different path forward looks like. Wayne opens with the American burying beetle — a species with a nearly identical history of failed in-lieu fee programs, until Fish…