Kansas Prairie Chicken

Feds remove protections for lesser prairie chicken

Feds remove protections for lesser prairie chicken; Kansas lawmakers celebrate

There used to be millions of lesser prairie chickens, according to the Associated Press, but now there are only about 30,000 in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

KVOE · 4h

Lesser prairie chicken removed from threatened, endangered status

Agri-Pulse · 19h

Lesser prairie chicken taken off the endangered species list

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Little grouse on the prairie: Lesser prairie chicken loses federal protections

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision Wednesday to strip Endangered Species Act protections from the fowl.

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Lesser prairie chicken removed from federal threatened species list

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White House removes lesser prairie-chickens from endangered list

Lawrence Journal-World

Kansas lesser prairie chicken loses endangered species act protections after Texas court order

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 classifications, lost its federal protections in court in a victory ...

KAKE.com

The lesser prairie chicken is disappearing in Kansas. Can conservation credits save it?

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 vast grasslands that covered the middle of the country.

Hays Post

Kan. U.S. Senator applauds removal of prairie-chicken from ESA list

WASHINGTON – Kansas U.S. Senator Jerry Moran– a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry – today applauded the removal of the lesser prairie-chicken from the Endangered Species Act (ESA) list by the U.

KCUR 89.3 FM

Lesser prairie chicken are disappearing from Kansas. Can conservation credits save them?

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. ASHLAND, Kansas — In the remaining grasslands in Kansas ...