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 ...

TOPEKA (KANSAS REFLECTOR) - The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has teetered between threatened and endangered for decades. The ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists have ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday said he welcomed the recent announcement of the federal government to remove the lesser prairie chicken from the federal endangered species list ...

Impact of sampling from five states could affect wildlife management nationwide Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species.