The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered in some places and threatened in others, citing mistakes made in the ...

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, ...

While the Trump administration’s request for a court to allow removing lesser prairie-chickens from the protections of the Endangered Species Act due to a technicality may seem helpful to some in the ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s population has dropped over recent years, prompting some to call for it to be listed as endangered. The designation would possible come at a cost ...

A federally and state listed threatened species, the lesser-prairie chicken is found in small fragmented populations in the grasslands of southeast Colorado. Unfortunately, populations of this ...

Preserving habitat for lesser prairie-chickens is crucial to their survival, and Wayne Walker believes one way to preserve habitat is to allow private investment so that farmers and ranchers have ...

The lesser prairie chicken, known for the males’ quirky courtship dance, inhabits grasslands sought-after by farming and energy developers. By Catrin Einhorn The Trump administration has moved to end ...

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 ...

TOPEKA (KANSAS REFLECTOR) - The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has teetered between threatened and endangered for decades. The ...

WASHINGTON – Congress has approved two measures to undo federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken and northern long-eared bat — two endangered animals that have seen their populations plummet ...