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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Why Animals Hide in the Cold
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-01-25 11:26:25
	Description:		While dealing with winter’s worst, we can always grab another blanket or turn up the thermostat to stay comfortable. Wildlife has to rely on finding other ways to try to stay warm. In this episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist talks about thermal cover. When I worked in the great plains, the Buffalo Ridge ran through my work area. There were many power-generating windmills traversing the area, which boasts some of the highest sustained twenty-foot wind speeds in the country. On one occasion I was visiting Leon, a landowner along the ridge, a gentleman I knew well and visited often, and I was talking about a project we were working on to remove trees to benefit grassland birds. Leon looked me in the eye and said, “but the trees break up the wind and slow it down.” My response was that one tree alone could not do anything to break up or slow down the wind. “You don’t think so?” he asked. “Why don’t you walk to that cottonwood over there and stand behind it.” Well, Leon had
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