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 ...

A federal judge ruled the Biden administration's decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered was unlawful. Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and other plaintiffs, ...

A Texas judge stripped away federal protections for a previously endangered species last week in what's being called by lawmakers a win for both ranchers and the energy industry who were previously ...

Endangered Species Act protections for the lesser prairie chicken have been jettisoned by a federal judge in Texas. U.S. District Judge David Counts issued a ruling last week that vacated the U.S.

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 Trump administration said it found a “serious defect” in the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2022 listing decision for the bird. A Texas-based federal judge assented to a Trump administration request ...

A U.S. District Court in Texas has vacated a decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened and endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. It was a winding path to get such ...

Conservation groups want a Texas court to overturn the recent gutting of federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a near-flightless bird living in the grasslands of Eastern New Mexico and ...

Two conservation groups have pushed back on an August court decision to overturn and remand the listing of the lesser prairie chicken on the U.S. endangered species list. Last month, a federal judge ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The decision by a Texas federal court removed the lesser prairie chicken of any endangered or threatened species protections, which were ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — A Texas Judge from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas Midland/Odessa Division has ruled this week that the Lesser Prairie Chicken is to ...