TOPEKA — Entrepreneur and conservationist Wayne Walker says the business of saving the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas required wider commitment to paying market rates to landowners dedicated to ...

The lesser prairie chicken was granted endangered species status in 2023. Now the Department of the Interior is moving to revoke those protections. What can this bird known for its flamboyant ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing to list the Lesser Prairie-Chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The chicken’s habitat spans parts of five states, including Colorado, Kansas, ...

Various entities continue to keep tabs on what might be in the offing for lesser prairie-chicken habitat in western Kansas. Recently, Cameron Edwards, a group of Kansas agricultural producers, and the ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released the following statement in response to a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas vacating the U.S. Fish and ...

It's finally happened. A chicken that you've probably never heard of, unless you're into environmental things, has formally been declared "threatened." The lesser prairie chicken is a member of 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, ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a male lesser prairie chicken in southeastern New Mexico. (AP File Photo) A court ruling taking the lesser prairie-chicken off ...

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 ...

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 ...