In southeastern Colorado, a slew of green energy projects are being planned – some in partnership with landowners and some despite landowners. At the same time, the lesser prairie chicken has been dominating many of my conversations as of late, due in part to the bird’s unique April dance marathon, which makes it more observable and visible than at any other time of year. Perhaps green energy projects can share habitats with species like the LPC, but ranchers most certainly can. If we want to save the LPC, we need to save ranching.  There are conservation programs available to compensate ranchers for managing the land for the benefit of, for example, chickens.…