© 2025
In touch with the world ... at home on the High Plains
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Our translator station serving St. Francis and Cheyenne County at 96.3 FM is off the air due to an air conditioning breakdown at its leased transmitter site, making it too hot for HPPR's equipment to operate. We are currently working to fix the situation. We apologize for the loss of service and ask listeners to tune to KZNK at 90.1 FM or listen on line through the player above or HPPR's mobile app.

Playa Health: The Importance of Buffers

Texas Parks and Wildlife

Research indicates that a buffer surrounding a playa lake, consisting typically of native grasses and forbs, prevents migration of upland topsoil and farm chemicals into lowland wetlands such as playa lakes and rainwater basins.

The buffers are important to rangeland playas, but are vital when playas are situated in fields under crop production.

PARTICIPANTS:

Tom Flowers
NRCS District Conservationist (ret.)
Meade, KS

Bill Johnson
Biologist
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Canyon, TX

Ted LaGrange
Wetland Program Manager
Nebraska Game & Parks Commission
Lincoln, NE

Jerry Miller
Farm Bill Biologist
Pheasants Forever/Quail Forever
Sterling, CO