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Over the decades, the Lesser Prairie Chicken has become a purity test for Kansas politicians and a proxy in the battle between industry and private landowners versus environmentalists.
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As more of the lesser prairie chicken's habitat is taken over by agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is promoting more voluntary conservation initiatives for the bird and the health of the Great Plains.
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The booming calls of the lesser prairie chicken once rung out across western Kansas. Accounts from the 1800s mention bands of hunters bagging dozens of...
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The University of Kansas has a $2.1 million contract to study the lesser prairie chicken.The university will work with the Western Association of Fish and…
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Gov. Sam Brownback has directed two state agencies to develop a program for breeding lesser prairie chickens after the federal government listed the bird…
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Environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit that argues the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not doing enough to protect the lesser prairie…
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The executive director of Audubon of Kansas likes Governor Sam Brownback’s call for improved federal conservation incentives for farmers to help increase…
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Governor Brownback will be in Wichita on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listing the Lesser Prairie Chicken as a ‘threatened’…
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Federal authorities are reassuring Kansas farmers and landowners that listing the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species won't affect their…
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is not responding publicly to a new Kansas law that says only Kansas can regulate the lesser prairie chicken within its…