They once roamed the sagebrush and shinnery oak of the southern Great Plains by the millions, but today occupy just a fraction of their historic range. In 2012 the lesser prairie chicken population ...

A decision to allow a major solar project in the Midwest to build near the threatened species' mating area faces a new legal ...

Hunters can help researchers in a study looking at whether hybridization between prairie chickens and sharp-tailed grouse is influencing prairie chicken populations. The long-term effects of ...

HABITAT: Lesser prairie chickens occupy two primary ecosystem types: shinnery oak and sand sagebrush grasslands. These birds require large parcels of intact native grasslands, often in excess of ...

Personally, these are my favorite articles to write. That said, I wanted to take this week to write about the prairie chicken, a game bird that was once abundant on the prairie land of McLeod ...

Prairie chickens are native to Wisconsin but habitat losses over the last 150 years due to increased agriculture and forest encroachment have caused large shifts in the range and abundance of the ...

It received the vast majority of its opposition due to its proximity to Buena Vista and concerns for detrimental impacts to prairie chickens. Prairie chickens are known as a "species of avoidance ...

The plight of the greater prairie chicken in Wisconsin appears set to take a turn for the worse. As a longtime advocate for the native bird, that's a hard statement for me to write. And although ...