Various entities continue to keep tabs on what might be in the offing for lesser prairie-chicken habitat in western Kansas. Recently, Cameron Edwards, a group of Kansas agricultural producers, and the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is proposing to list the Lesser Prairie-Chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The chicken’s habitat spans parts of five states, including Colorado, Kansas, ...

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 ...

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 federal judge ruled the Biden administration's decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered was unlawful. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and other plaintiffs, ...

Oklahoma’s Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, recently said that Fish and Wildlife Service's decision to propose a “threatened” ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released the following statement in response to a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas vacating the U.S. Fish and ...

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 ...

Gov. Mary Fallin voiced support Friday for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal not to list the lesser prairie chicken as an “endangered species,” and to instead list it only as “threatened.” ...

Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken have been jettisoned by a federal judge in Texas. U.S. District Judge David Counts issued a ruling last week that vacated the U.S.

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 ...

President Joe Biden vetoed a resolution to nullify his administration’s rule regarding the population segments under the Endangered Species Act. Biden in his veto message about said S.J. Resolution 9 ...