That's why the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved plans developed by conservation firms. The plans are specific to extraction operators that would specify actions they could take to prevent ...

Will energy companies continue to protect habitat for a prairie grouse in the absence of government regulations? Will energy companies continue to protect habitat for a prairie grouse in the absence ...

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach still plans to sue the federal government over regulations designed to protect the lesser prairie chicken, despite a 60-day delay in implementing the rules. In ...

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration said Thursday it is placing a grassland grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken on a list of threatened species, a move that could affect gas and oil drilling, ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service is delaying its listing of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act in order to give cattle producers time to enroll in conservation agreements.

Aug. 27—A stout grouse native to eastern New Mexico lost its endangered species status this month. The lesser prairie chicken has gained and lost federal protections more than once as conservation ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved the first of two proposed Habitat Conservation Plans from LPC Conservation, LLC, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. These plans, announced Dec. 1, enable ...

The business mantra of "location, location, location" has a direct corollary in the wildlife world: "habitat, habitat, habitat." And when an animal has specific needs, not just any habitat will do.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration is temporarily delaying stepped-up legal protections for two imperiled species following efforts by congressional Republicans to derail the actions ...

A judge’s decision Tuesday to strip federal protections from a prairie grouse that roams the southern Great Plains has thrown into question how the government considers voluntary conservation measures ...