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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can private ecosystem markets protect the lesser prairie-chicken’s habitat when federal regulation has either failed or may be overturned? That’s the question that the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Landowner ...

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 U.S. District judge on Aug. 12 ruled in favor of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, finding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service committed a “foundational error” when it declared the prairie-chicken ...

The United States District Court for the Western District of Texas reversed the listing of the lesser prairie-chicken on the endangered and threatened species list under the Endangered Species Act on ...

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to work with farmers and ranchers on grassland preservation and needed policy ...

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 ...

Prairie Chickens are primarily a meat chicken, but they do lay eggs. Recently, U.S. District Judge David Counts overturned an attempt to list Lesser prairie chickens as endangered and or threatened.

“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 ...