Prairie chickens, a native species to parts of the Midwest and the Great Plains, were extirpated from the state through habitat destruction and hunting. The species was reintroduced in the 1980s ...

The Wisconsin Wildlife Federation had filed an appeal to the Public Service Commissions in an effort to stop approval of the ...

ASHLAND, Kansas — Staking out the elusive and rapidly disappearing lesser prairie chicken involves a stealthy 5:30 a.m. entry into a rebar-fortified bird blind, freezing into place as the sun ...

From 2012 to 2014, the prairie chicken in the shinnery oak prairie region fell from 2,967 to 1,155. Range-wide, WAFWA estimated there to be 26,591 birds in 2022, falling from 33,504 last year, and ...

Lesser Prairie-Chicken Landowner Alliance provides landowners with incentives that help ranchers and bird habitat, Dave Bergmeier writes.

This prairie chicken is Biden's latest weapon in his war on fossil fuels ... oil and gas industry workers were fined up to $45,000 if they disturbed a single acre of lesser prairie chicken habitat.

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.

That included habitat improvement to help the lesser prairie-chicken and improving grass conditions to support grazing cattle. In 2024, the commitment shows, he said.

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 ...

A 7,100-Acre Solar Farm Is Slated for What’s Left of Wisconsin’s Best Prairie Chicken Habitat. A proposal to build the state's largest solar farm is getting pushback from both hunters and birdwatchers ...

Lesser-prairie chickens will have been on and off the list four times in the last 11 years, ... They are clearly threatened with extinction, because their habitat is disappearing.