Conservationists and cattle ranchers are working together to restore grassland for the lesser prairie chicken. The bird used ...

They once roamed the sagebrush and shinnery oak of the southern Great Plains by the millions, but today occupy just a fraction of their historic range. In 2012 the lesser prairie chicken population ...

The lesser prairie chicken’s decline to a fraction of its original numbers results from the degradation and fragmentation of the southern Great Plains. Conversion to crops, cattle grazing, the raising ...

Pure Prairie Poultry in Charles City stopped operations on Wednesday, Oct. 2, and all production employees at the plant were given notice that their positions have been eliminated.

The grassland-dependent lesser prairie-chicken was recently listed under ... especially here in Texas and the southwestern Great Plains. In fact, over the last 50 years grassland birds overall ...

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 ...