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 ...

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TEXAS CITY - Brandon Crawford stopped his white SUV in the middle of a waterlogged, mosquito-filled prairie, and pointed what looked like a 1970s television antenna toward the horizon. A steady "ping, ...

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 ...

The lesser prairie chicken, despite its name, has long been an important and iconic symbol of the Southwest's prairies and grasslands. Its shrinking population -- estimated to have once been in the ...

The lesser prairie chicken was once a common sight in the southern Great Plains, but its numbers are dwindling. Even so, it lost federal protections earlier this year for a second time. Now states and ...

A massive proposed solar energy development in Portage County has caused conservationists to sound the alarm over the project's potential detrimental impacts to Wisconsin's threatened population of ...

NEWTON, Ill. (AP) — A program to boost Illinois’ declining population of greater prairie chickens is becoming an election-year issue, with some turning the bird into a feathered symbol of government ...

WATSON -- Some of Minnesota's most celebrated wildlife restoration stories have been scripted in recent years with the return of trumpeter swans, osprey and peregrine falcons to parts of the state. A ...

A rare bird threatened by oil and gas development in the southeast New Mexico Permian Basin region was listed for the strongest federal protections available Thursday, according to an announcement ...