My Place Among Birds: Misadventures in the Desert

By: Kris Millgate

Narrated by: Kris Millgate

Hop on the high desert adventure. This one is for the birds.

Find the largest grouse in North America with Emmy-winning outdoor journalist Kris Millgate. In the fourth installment of her My Place collection, Millgate follows disappearing sage grouse through the high deserts of the American West for the wildlife film Sage Wisdom West. Her journey through the brushlands of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming reveals the challenges people and wildlife encounter as the presence of this upland bird shrinks. With the loss of sagebrush comes the loss of greater sage grouse. The wild bird’s population has declined by eighty percent since 1965. To save what’s left, we must save what we’ve overlooked for a century. The West’s dominant landscape, sagebrush steppe, is evolving from perceived wasteland to cherished wild land. My Place Among Birds is the story of how one woman, sometimes crawling and sometimes crying, goes looking for feathers only to discover it is the desert that heals all hurts.

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