Areas of occupied habitat for the prairie chicken and the lizard also will be off limits to new oil and gas activity, said Tony Herrell, BLM’s deputy director for minerals in New Mexico.

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 ...

There are fewer than 20,000 lesser prairie chickens in Kansas. More than half of these birds live in western Kansas - many of them on Stacy Hoeme's ranch near Scott City.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The prairie chicken once roamed a territory larger than California, but its native grassland and prairie habitat shrank by 84 percent in the face of oil and gas drilling, ...

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

Prairie chickens were historically found throughout the state; in 1941 the species was documented in all 72 counties. As its name implies, prairie chickens live in open, grassy areas.

USFWS. The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) has finalized the purchase of approximately 30,000 acres of high-quality lesser prairie-chicken habitat in southwest Kansas.

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.

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.