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What’s More Harmful to Birds in North Dakota: Oil and Gas Drilling, or Corn and Soybeans?

Inside Climate News · By Lydia Larsen · last updated
A new study based on Breeding Bird Surveys found that grassland birds reacted even more negatively to corn and soybean fields than they did to land used for oil and gas development.

By Lydia Larsen

The struggle to meet a growing global energy demand is playing out across North Dakota’s landscape. On the western half of the state, oil and gas wells dot the Bakken shale, and farmers swap small grains, such as wheat, barley and oats, traditionally grown in the region, for corn and soybeans used as biofuel feedstocks. 

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