A lesser prairie chicken is seen amid the bird’s annual mating ritual near Milnesand, N.M., April 8, 2021. On Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, the U.S. government added two segments of a rare grouse to ...

More recently, the lesser prairie chicken population in southeast Colorado and southwest Kansas was devastated by severe snowstorms, particularly in December 2006, followed by years of drought.

Federal wildlife officials on Nov. 17 designated the nation’s surviving lesser prairie chickens officially “endangered” across Texas and New Mexico and “threatened” in Colorado, Oklahoma ...

BACA COUNTY, Colo. — Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) biologists just wrapped up a grueling month-long effort to trap lesser prairie chickens on their breeding grounds in Kansas.

DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it is considering formally listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species. Friday's announcement begins a yearlong review that ...

Officials say aerial surveys for the lesser-prairie chicken in New Mexico, Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas show an overall upward population trend over the last six years.

For our nation’s laws to really mean something, they must be enforced, even when -- especially when — opponents are among the most economically and politically powerful industries.

The lesser prairie chicken’s ... was listed as endangered in March in its southern range in southeast New Mexico and West Texas and threatened in another area of northern Texas, Colorado, ...

Feds grant lesser prairie chicken ESA protections. ... southeast Colorado, ... Populations have declined across its range by an estimated 90 percent since the early 20th century, ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once believed to number in the hundreds of thousands, but today New Mexico is home to about a few thousand of the birds.

The lesser prairie chicken was to be listed under the highest class of protections “endangered” in a southern population segment covering southeast New Mexico and West Texas, the announcement ...