WASHINGTON— The Trump administration issued its final decision today to strip federal Endangered Species Act protection from ...
The news is the latest in the long-running back-and-forth over the bird's fate, as conservationists have sought support for the 30,000 lesser prairie chickens remaining in the country, a 90% decline ...
An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas. Conservation groups are looking to overturn an ...
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 ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday officially removed the lesser prairie chicken from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, fulfilling a federal court ...
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has released its upland game bird hunting forecast for 2023. The forecast is available online and will soon be in printed form, according to a news release.