OPINION This prairie chicken is Biden's latest weapon in his war on fossil fuels Biden and the left's war on fossil fuels appears to have no limits.

“We have fewer than 30,000 lesser prairie chickens left” in the U.S., Augustine noted. “I feel (that by) coming and sitting on a prairie chicken lek, you still have a piece of that history left.

From 2012 to 2014, the prairie chicken in the shinnery oak prairie region fell from 2,967 to 1,155. Range-wide, WAFWA estimated there to be 26,591 birds in 2022, falling from 33,504 last year, and ...

Koch ran the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s lesser prairie-chicken biology program for 35 years. He noted in a video that the best stronghold for the lesser prairie-chickens is on private land ...

As they do every year, male lesser prairie-chickens gathered this Spring on the 48,000-acre Gardiner Angus Ranch in Ashland, ... Send Print Report. Latest Posts.

Biologists originally classified the lesser and greater prairie chickens of the Great Plains as two different species.

“I grew up hunting prairie chickens, they’re very near and dear to me,” said Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican pushing to get the bird off of the endangered species list.

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the Public Lands Council are voicing opposition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s final rule to list the lesser prairie-chicken under the ...

Prairie chickens don’t tolerate brushy habitat, while sharptails require brushy cover. When the two species mate, the result is a grouse that is neither a sharptail nor a prairie chicken, Roy says.

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 abundant.

Protections for two populations of rare prairie birds in parts of the Midwest have been announced by the U.S. government. Environmentalists have sought stronger protections for decades.

The lesser prairie chicken, known for the males’ quirky courtship dance, inhabits grasslands sought-after by farming and energy developers. By Catrin Einhorn The Trump administration has moved ...