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 ...

Providing habitat for lesser prairie-chicken works best when landowners have an incentive, according to members of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Landowner Alliance. The recently announced alliance is ...

The prairie was still asleep when I drug my blurry-eyed self and camera gear out of a van onto a pasture in Gove County. Our instructions indicated we should follow the stacks of cow pies to the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mom and I fancy ourselves birdwatchers. But we don’t begin to qualify as birders, those obsessed people in earth-toned outdoor apparel who travel the globe ...

ASHLAND, Kansas — Staking out the elusive and rapidly disappearing lesser prairie chicken involves a stealthy 5:30 a.m. entry into a rebar-fortified bird blind, freezing into place as the sun rises ...

Willard Heck looked out over the prairie of eastern New Mexico and waited as dawn drew closer. Up over the sprawling farmlands came the sunrise, and it brought with it the sights and sounds of an ...