Bianca Sicich isn’t ready to let go of the prairie just yet. It’s the last Friday of February, the first green shoots of spring emerging from the overwintering tall grass, and she’s up early to ...

Increased protections for the lesser prairie chicken were rejected by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday with the two Kansas Republicans leading the effort to protect farmers, ranchers and producers. Sen.

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 land ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lesser Prairie-Chicken’s population has dropped over recent years, prompting some to call for it to be listed as endangered. The designation would possible come at a cost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DEBATE THAT IS FOR THE BIRDS, REALLY. IT’S ABOUT A BIRD, AT LEAST ON THE SURFACE. THERE’S A LOT OF GROUSING ABOUT A CHANGE TAKING FLIGHT IN AN EFFORT TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE AN ICON OF THE GREAT ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Nature Conservancy have set up a livestream video of the greater prairie chickens on the lek at Bluestem Prairie near Glyndon. A male prairie ...