Tag: lesser prairie chicken

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced Endangered Species Act protections for two distinct population segments of the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), a grassland bird that has been...

Under a new proposal from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) populations would be listed under the Endangered Species Act. The proposal, released on June 1...

Wildlife managers are seeing initial success after three years of translocating more than 400 lesser prairie-chickens into a sagebrush prairie environment straddling Kansas and Colorado. “Everybody’s still very excited, still...

On Aug. 8, The Wildlife Society issued a letter to the Congressional Conference Committee for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, asking that three amendments within the bill...

On July 20, following a September 2015 court order, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service formally removed federal Endangered Species Act protections from the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). The...