What I remember most about that dark early morning of crouching on the prairie is the rhythmic sound of pounding. It was so loud I wondered if someone had put a microphone near the skinny legs of the ...

President Joe Biden vetoed a resolution to nullify his administration’s rule regarding the population segments under the Endangered Species Act. Biden in his veto message about said S.J. Resolution 9 ...

The House Rules Committee voted late Tuesday to move forward with two disapproval resolutions that would curtail the Biden administration’s protections for two species, the northern long-eared bat and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) released the following statement in response to a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas vacating the U.S. Fish and ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— In a victory for lesser prairie chickens, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today it would protect the iconic grassland bird under the Endangered Species Act. Two ...

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 ...

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 ...

A wild chicken species in parts of the Panhandle and West Texas could stymie the nation’s oil and gas producers, industry insiders fear. After decades of advocacy from environmental groups, the U.S.

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 ...