ASHLAND, Kansas — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas lives the lesser prairie chicken, a stocky, quail-like bird that used to roam the Great Plains. They once fed, nested, danced and mated in the ...

Prairie chickens boom and dance on a lek at Paul J. Olson Wildlife Area near Wisconsin Rapids. Video from 2022 ...

A U.S. District judge on Aug. 12 ruled in favor of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas, finding that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service committed a “foundational error” when it declared the prairie-chicken ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered in some places and threatened in others, citing mistakes made in the ...

The federal government's decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered or threatened could inspire interest in a system of conservation banking that pays landowners a market rate for ...

HOUSTON - Trudging through the tall grass still wet from 4 inches of weekend rain one day last month, Terry Rossignol and Rebekah Smith push toward a pen holding four Attwater's prairie chickens ready ...

About 10 years ago at this time in April, my friend Mike and I left Onalaska in the middle of the night to drive to a dance, which was to begin just before dawn. We hiked in the dark from a gravel ...

Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered ...

The Attwater’s prairie-chicken is one of nature’s most fascinating and unusual birds, often compared to a rabbit because of its distinctive tufts and compact body. Native to the coastal grasslands of ...

Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used to roam Kansas, but has lost most of its habitat to crop production.