Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lesser prairie chicken’s protected status is for the birds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued its final decision ...

"Instead, lesser prairie-chickens became officially delisted due to multiple court cases filed by industrial oil, big ...

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 ...