Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, ...

A federal judge ruled the Biden administration's decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered was unlawful. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and other plaintiffs, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser prairie chicken’s protected status is for the birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision ...

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.

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Kansas boasts some of the best upland bird populations in the world. In fact, the largest concentrations of both lesser and greater prairie chickens are found in Kansas. Bobwhite quail still thrive ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has announced a proposed “Threatened” listing of the lesser prairie chicken, and officials with the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation say they ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s protected status is for the birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision Wednesday to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the fowl. It may ...