Once bustling with Greater Prairie Chickens, Iowa's farmlands have dwindled their numbers, while South Dakota's rich prairies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Interior Department is asking a federal judge to strike down its own Endangered Species Act determination for the lesser prairie chicken, citing a “serious defect” in the 2022 listing that should ...

CLAY COUNTY, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has placed a livestreaming camera at The Nature Conservancy’s Bluestem Prairie Preserve in Clay County to showcase the sights and ...