A full hour before the April sun comes up, Biologist Kendall Van Zanten is driving the sometimes-bumpy gravel roads of Beaver ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — An endangered New Mexico chicken is no longer under federal protection. The Trump administration announced on ...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and its partners are making strides in lesser prairie-chicken conservation, evidenced especially by the recent U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) ...

Like their domesticated cousins, lesser prairie-chickens aren't the wiliest of creatures.

TOPEKA — An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to work with farmers and ranchers on grassland preservation and ...

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.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — An endangered New Mexico chicken is no longer under federal protection. The Trump administration announced on Wednesday they will be stripping the lesser-prairie chicken of its ...