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 ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The lesser prairie chicken has been officially removed from the federal endangered and threatened species list by the Trump administration. The bird’s population spans parts of ...

Mark Gardiner stood on the hill he calls "the high and lonesome” on his 48,000-acre ranch. The lookout near the Oklahoma-Kansas state line opens up to a sea of sagebrush prairie, a hospitable home for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Trump administration on Feb. 25, 2026, removed Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken, which lives ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A bird that calls New Mexico home will not be listed as an endangered species. Some see this as a major win for New Mexico industry, while others said it could have dire ...

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.