The oil and gas industry is reportedly teaming with ranchers and environmentalists to find a free-market solution to the declining population of the lesser prairie chicken, whose habitat is shrinking ...

LINCOLN — A Custer County 4-H member is taking advantage of an unused section of land by turning it into a habitat for prairie chickens. Russell McMillan, age 13, will be an eighth- grader in the fall ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A portly brown grouse with striped feathers and large golden brows might return to protected status in late May, ...

TOPEKA — Entrepreneur and conservationist Wayne Walker says the business of saving the lesser prairie chicken in Kansas required wider commitment to paying market rates to landowners dedicated to ...

Farmers and ranchers in the Texas Panhandle could see more green by cultivating habitat for the increasingly rare lesser prairie chicken. Under a novel plan, landowners willing to restore native ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced it has approved range-wide habitat conservation plans to provide legal assurance of compliance with the Endangered Species Act for the lesser ...

ST. LOUIS — Farmland owners counties can give prairie chickens a boost while earning income in an unsettling economy. A new state-federal program will pay farmland owners in 11 Missouri counties to ...