Two Kansas Republicans are leading an initiative to delist the lesser prairie chicken from the threatened and endangered species list. U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kansas, recently led 14 of his ...

A Wichita oil company executive says the federal government’s listing of the lesser prairie chicken as threatened has hampered his firm’s operations in western Kansas. Vess Oil Corp.

WASHINGTON (KSNW) — Kansas’ representatives in Congress have introduced legislation to delist the lesser prairie chicken from the threatened and endangered species list and to prohibit it from ...

These birds require large parcels of intact native grasslands, often in excess of 20,000 acres. RANGE: Currently the lesser prairie chicken is present in southeastern Colorado, the southwestern ...

Male greater prairie chickens make booming calls to attract females for mating. A seven-year study from a Kansas State University research team has found that wind power development has little ...

One week ago members of the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition introduced the Harvey County Commission to the coalition, and ...

“Every new day without protection brings this rare dancing bird closer to extinction.” In June 2021 the Service proposed placing lesser prairie chickens living in southeast Colorado, southwest Kansas, ...