Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser prairie chicken makes its home in Eastern New Mexico (Larry Lamsa via KUNM) Last week, a Texas judge decided to vacate ...

Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Topeka — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered ...

Private capital can help ranchers to build habitat for an endangered bird, improve their ranchland and earn added income. That approach is working to preserve habitat for lesser prairie-chicken. The ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration issued its final decision today to strip federal Endangered Species Act protection from the imperiled lesser prairie chicken. The decision eliminates the birds’ ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

On Feb. 26, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced the lesser prairie-chicken has officially been delisted from any endangered status. The red tape associated with protecting the lesser ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the lesser prairie chicken from the endangered species list, a move sought by cattlemen in America’s heartland. Fish and Wildlife finalized the delisting Feb ...

Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to develop ...

The lesser prairie chicken, known for its flamboyant courtship dances and bulging neck pouches, has lost a majority of its population in the grasslands and brush of southwestern Kansas. But Republican ...

LAMAR, Colo. — A public meeting is scheduled Monday to discuss ways to protect the lesser prairie chicken. Representatives from state and federal agencies will be on hand to discuss a management plan ...