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.

Buena Vista is one of the few remaining habitats for prairie chickens in Wisconsin and is considered an Important Bird Area. The prairie chicken population has declined significantly since the 1950s, ...

A federally and state listed threatened species, the lesser-prairie chicken is found in small fragmented populations in the grasslands of southeast Colorado. Unfortunately, populations of this ...

The business mantra of "location, location, location" has a direct corollary in the wildlife world: "habitat, habitat, habitat." And when an animal has specific needs, not just any habitat will do.

Grasslands and associated wildlife in the Great Plains of North America have declined precipitously and are now experiencing an increase in large wildfire activity. In a Journal of Wildlife Management ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A greater prairie chicken during its courtship at the Kellerton lek. (Photo by Lowell Washburn/DNR) For more than a decade, Iowans ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The lesser prairie chicken has caused a controversy involving the Endangered Species Act. Since the federal government added it to the Threatened Species List, farmers in Kansas ...

Prairie chickens and the grasslands they need to survive were kind of overlooked, one might say, back in 1973, when two young biologists working in Crookston decided to see if they could draw some ...

Among America’s iconic native birds, the lesser prairie chicken can be especially hard to spot — hiding behind shrubs, seldom popping out except before sunrise in spring for flamboyant mating dances.