Last year, the breeding population of the lesser prairie-chicken — whose habitat spans the Texas Panhandle and parts of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado — numbered 29,934, according ...

The lesser prairie-chicken has become a greater concern for energy companies in Texas. The lesser prairie-chicken has become a greater concern for energy companies in Texas. The U.S. Fish and ...

Environmental officials in five states, including Texas, say interest in a plan to save the lesser prairie chicken should persuade the federal government not to list the bird as "threatened" under ...

Wildlife managers in several states will begin surveys later this month to track the population of a grouse that has been the focus of an ongoing legal battle over whether it warrants federal ...

A meta‐analysis of lesser prairie‐chicken nesting and brood‐rearing habitats: Implications for habitat management, Wildlife Society Bulletin, 37(4):750-758 | doi:10.1002/wsb.313 Read more ...

From 2012 to 2014, the prairie chicken in the shinnery oak prairie region fell from 2,967 to 1,155. Range-wide, WAFWA estimated there to be 26,591 birds in 2022, falling from 33,504 last year, and ...

MIDLAND, Texas . A federal court in Texas has vacated Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken. Tuesday’s ruling is a victory for Texas oil and gas companies that argued ...

Facing an uphill court fight, the U.S. government announced Tuesday it was formally removing the lesser prairie chicken from a federal protection list under the Endangered Species Act.

“The lesser prairie chicken is a Texas bird that needs protection, or it faces extinction,” Schneider said. “We are joining the fight to save all the species that call Texas home. ...

The U.S. government said Wednesday that it won't appeal recent court rulings in Texas that stripped the lesser prairie chicken of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Apr. 1—As March 2023 came to a close new federal regulations went into effect regarding the lesser prairie chicken; regulations that a number of New Mexicans and Texans see as usurping private ...

MIDLAND - Conservation advocates say the lesser prairie chicken's population surged 25 percent from the year before, six months after a federal judge ruled the species shouldn't be protected by ...