On May 1 & 2, 2023 Joe and his friend and colleague Ken Belcher, conducted a count of sharptail grouse on dancing grounds around Perdue, Saskatchewan. They have bee tracking these leks and grouse numbers for a number of years.
Frances and Frederick Hamerstrom, better known as Fran and Hammy, spent most of their careers studying Greater Prairie Chickens on the Leola Marsh in Wisconsin. So Joe is continuing that tradition in a small way in Saskatchewan.
