Conservationists sought to defend federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken amid legal challenges filed by multiple states in its protected range, since the bird was listed as endangered ...

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 ...

Renewable energy could hold the key to save the lesser prairie chicken from extinction in New Mexico and across the west, said conservationists. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered in some places and threatened in others, citing mistakes made in the ...

The U.S. Senate has voted to overturn a rule aimed at protecting the lesser prairie-chicken in Oklahoma and other states, though the margin was well short of the number needed to overcome a veto by ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s most recent ESA protections separated the species geographically with distinct population segments. The southern population is in parts of New Mexico and Texas, while the ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Topeka — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

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 ...