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 ...

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 ...

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.

A federal judge in Texas granted a request by the Trump administration, which said a Biden-era decision to safeguard the bird was flawed. By Catrin Einhorn A federal judge has agreed to let the Trump ...

Conservation groups want a Texas court to overturn the recent gutting of federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a near-flightless bird living in the grasslands of Eastern New Mexico and ...

Two Kansas Republicans are leading an initiative to delist the lesser prairie chicken from the threatened and endangered species list. U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, recently led 14 of his ...

TOPEKA — Entrepreneur and conservationist Wayne Walker says the business of saving the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas required wider commitment to paying market rates to landowners dedicated to ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — A state lawmaker has grilled Democratic legislators about spending money to use a state plane to fly prairie chickens to south-central Illinois from Kansas. Illinois ...

One week ago, the sun rose on my hunting season. If the next few months follow suit, it’ll be magical. That first morning we trudged due east in northern Clay County through chest-high thistles and ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The decision by a Texas federal court removed the lesser prairie chicken of any endangered or threatened species protections, which were ...