After pecking away for years, the Trump administration Wednesday finally erased all remaining endangered species protections ...

After pecking away for years, the Trump administration last month finally erased all remaining endangered species protections for the lesser prairie-chicken, whose “booming” and red-throated mating da ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.S. District Court in Texas has vacated a decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened and endangered under the ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered ...

As they do every year, male lesser prairie-chickens gathered this Spring on the 48,000-acre Gardiner Angus Ranch in Ashland, Kansas for their ritual mating dance to attract females. The Gardiner Ranch ...

The lesser prairie chicken does a distinctive little dance every spring mating season. So, too, does Oklahoma’s congressional delegation every time the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service tries to add the ...

Two conservation groups have pushed back on an August court decision to overturn and remand the listing of the lesser prairie chicken on the U.S. endangered species list. Last month, a federal judge ...

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 ...

ASHLAND, Kansas — Staking out the elusive and rapidly disappearing lesser prairie chicken involves a stealthy 5:30 a.m. entry into a rebar-fortified bird blind, freezing into place as the sun rises ...

Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to develop ...

A U.S. District Court in Texas has vacated a decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened and endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. It was a winding path to get such ...