The left’s war on fossil fuels knows no boundaries. Every line of attack will be pursued. The latest salvo came with the January listing of the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened or endangered ...

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIDLAND, Texas – A federal court in Texas has stripped the lesser prairie chicken of Endangered Species Act protections, a victory for oil and gas companies that argued conservation efforts are ...

It’s pitch-black in Jasper County, Ill. — not yet 5 a.m. — and Bob Gillespie is running late. Gillespie, a wildlife biologist at Prairie Ridge State Natural Area near Newton, opens a gate with a do ...

A bird iconic to the American West continued to see its numbers dwindle last year as federal protections for the species were weeks away from going into effect. The lesser prairie chicken was deemed ...

Perhaps the most iconic bird of the Lone Star State is back on stage for this weekend's 22nd annual Attwater's Prairie Chicken Festival at the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge. "The ...

This report by CBS4's Paul Day originally aired in 2010. It was featured again in April 2011 on the CBS4 program Colorado Getaways. WRAY, Colo. (CBS4) - The dance of the Greater Prairie Chicken was ...