Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Increased protections for the lesser prairie chicken were rejected by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday with the two Kansas Republicans ...

An undated photo of a lesser prairie chicken, which lives in the grasslands of the Great Plains in New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas. Conservation groups are looking to overturn an ...

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.

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 ...

Kansas boasts some of the best upland bird populations in the world. In fact, the largest concentrations of both lesser and greater prairie chickens are found in Kansas. Bobwhite quail still thrive ...

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has released its upland game bird hunting forecast for 2023. The forecast is available online and will soon be in printed form, according to a news release.

PRATT, Kan. (WIBW) - The 2023 Kansas Upland Game Bird Forecast predicts a low chance of success for those who have their sites set on pheasants, however, quail and greater prairie chickens should be ...

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 ...

Increased protections for the lesser prairie chicken were rejected by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday with the two Kansas Republicans leading the effort to protect farmers, ranchers and producers. Sen.

Impact of sampling from five states could affect wildlife management nationwide Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species.