Trump to strip prairie chicken protections

Trump officials are trying to yank this animal’s last shot at survival

A lesser prairie-chicken doing its mating dance in northern Oklahoma. | Nattapong Assalee/Getty Images/iStockphoto The bird above is not your typical charismatic species. It’s no bald eagle, no peregrine falcon.  It’s a groundbird known as the lesser prairie-chicken that lives in the southern Great Plains. It’s not even the greater prairie-chicken, another, related avian species, that’s a bit larger.   Today, however, this bird is very much wort…

Trump to strip prairie chicken protections

Adrian HeddenEl Rito Mediaachedden@currentargus.com Rancher Bret Riley believes that measures taken to save a struggling grouse in the plains of eastern New Mexico can also protect the land he relies on at his approximately 22,000-acre spread 20 miles west of Tatum. The 62-year-old has owned the land known as Sand Ranch in the unincorporated Lea County community of Caprock for the past 13 years. He started leasing the land to raise cattle in 200…

Trump administration wants to remove protections for threatened Kansas bird

The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has teetered between threatened and endangered for decades. Continue reading ...