CHICO BASIN –Sunlit yellow warblers, mountain plovers, golden eagles, burrowing owls and 342 other species, increasingly aced out of habitat , flock to a 135-square-mile patch of state-owned prairie that has become Colorado’s busiest oasis for wild bird survival. But a state government agency would like to open up this Chico Basin prairie southeast of Colorado Springs to raise more revenue for schools....

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