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 ...

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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 to ...

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 7,100-acre Vista Sands Solar farm has qualities that make it ideal for solar energy -- but those qualities make it a perfect habitat for the greater prairie chicken, as well. Sparsely ...

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 ...