The Wexford Ranches of South and West Texas have received a prestigious conservation award. The O’Connor family, who have been ranchers in Texas since 1836, received the Leopold Conservation Award for ...

In southeastern Colorado, a slew of green energy projects are being planned – some in partnership with landowners and some despite landowners. At the same time, the lesser prairie chicken has been ...

ELMWOOD, Okla. (KFOR) — A full hour before the April sun comes up, Biologist Kendall Van Zanten is driving the sometimes-bumpy gravel roads of Beaver County. He stops his truck on high ground each ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lesser Prairie Chicken is no longer considered a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The Biodiversity Legal Foundation, now the Center for Biological ...

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) pulled Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken following a 2025 court ruling that had overturned a ‘threatened and endangered’ ...

FILE - A lesser prairie chicken is seen amid the bird's annual mating ritual near Milnesand, N.M., on April 8, 2021. (Adrian Hedden/Carlsbad Current Argus via AP, File) (Adrian Hedden) FORT COLLINS, ...

OKLAHOMA, USA — A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected after the Trump administration agreed with arguments by ...

On Feb. 26, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced the lesser prairie-chicken has officially been delisted from any endangered status. The red tape associated with protecting the lesser ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The lesser prairie chicken has been officially removed from the federal endangered and threatened species list by the Trump administration. The bird’s population spans parts of ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service on Thursday finalized a rule delisting two populations of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act. The rule removes the northern and southern distinct ...