“I mean, you're riding a horse across here and ever since I was a little kid, they fly off like a pheasant … it's pretty cool to see them.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates millions of ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday finalized a rule delisting two populations of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The rule removes the northern and southern distinct ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – A Midwestern bird known for its unique appearance and impressive courtship dances is officially off the federal threatened and endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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’ ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Trump administration issued a final decision on Thursday stripping the northern and southern populations of the lesser prairie chicken of their endangered and threatened ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lesser Prairie Chicken is no longer considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Biodiversity Legal Foundation, now the Center for Biological ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected after the Trump administration agreed with arguments ...

ELMWOOD, Okla. (KFOR) — A full hour before the April sun comes up, Biologist Kendall Van Zanten is driving the sometimes-bumpy gravel roads of Beaver County. He stops his truck on high ground each ...

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 ...