Feb. 21—Conservation banker Wayne Walker is on a mission to preserve lesser prairie chicken habitat. Walker, the principal of Common Ground Capital LLC, said in this case, instead of trying to develop ...

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 ...

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.

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species. Difficult to distinguish by their physical appearance alone, some scientists have ...

Wexford Ranches has received the Leopold Conservation Award, partly in recognition of efforts to save the Attwater’s prairie ...

The call of a male Attwater's prairie chicken during mating season can sound like a mix of a foghorn and a cat howling, but it's music to the ears of Kirk Feuerbacher. Feuerbacher, working land ...