An endangered New Mexico chicken is now no longer under federal protection. The Trump administration announced Wednesday they ...

In August 2025, a U.S. District Court in Texas vacated the bird's 2022 listing. A federal agency made it official.

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration issued its final decision today to strip federal Endangered Species Act protection from ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Ashland — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam ...

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 ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered ...

A stout grouse native to eastern New Mexico has lost its endangered species status. The lesser prairie chicken has gained and lost federal protections more than once as conservation groups, lawmakers, ...

Why did the lesser prairie chicken cross the road? To get the hell out of Texas where a whole lot of people are not thrilled with the fact that the chicken, a Texas native, has been taken under the ...

The left’s war on fossil fuels knows no boundaries. Every line of attack will be pursued. The latest salvo came with the January listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened or endangered ...

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.