What I remember most about that dark early morning of crouching on the prairie is the rhythmic sound of pounding. It was so loud I wondered if someone had put a microphone near the skinny legs of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 22—While appreciating the plight of the threatened lesser prairie chicken, the Barton County Commission Wednesday morning ...

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 ...

Colorado’s State Land Board is staring down a big decision that could reshape huge swaths of southeastern rangeland, and a lot of folks who run cattle out there are not thrilled. A new draft ...

A rare bird threatened by oil and gas development in the southeast New Mexico Permian Basin region was listed for the strongest federal protections available Thursday, according to an announcement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser prairie chicken, which has lost its endangered and threatened statuses, appears in a field in Oakley, Kansas. (Getty ...

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 ...

Mail wing and tail feathers (one envelope per bird), along with info on the county of harvest, to Grouse Research A hybrid prairie grouse, showing both the pinnae feathers of a male prairie chicken ...

Hunters can help researchers in a study looking at whether hybridization between prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse is influencing prairie chicken populations. The long-term effects of ...

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 ...