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 ...

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 ...

Preserving habitat for lesser prairie-chickens is crucial to their survival, and Wayne Walker believes one way to preserve habitat is to allow private investment so that farmers and ranchers have ...

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 ...

Increased protections for the lesser prairie chicken were rejected by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday with the two Kansas Republicans leading the effort to protect farmers, ranchers and producers. Sen.