Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

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 number of greater prairie chickens counted this spring in Wisconsin was very similar to the five-year average, but the threatened species continued to show concerning trends, according to the 2026 ...