Cattle producers and landowners are celebrating after the lesser prairie-chicken was removed from the endangered species list, ending years of regulations put on agriculture.

The stocky, dancing bird that populates prairies across five states lost its federal protections — not because its habitat or ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. Ashland — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam ...

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, ...

Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to develop ...

After pecking away for years, the Trump administration Wednesday finally erased all remaining endangered species protections ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, ...

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.