Trump Administration Wants to Remove Protections for Threatened Kansas Bird

Trump administration wants to remove protections for threatened Kansas bird

The filing alleges the USFWS improperly applied policy when determining whether the lesser prairie chicken should be listed under the Endangered Species Act, which “amounts to a serious substantive defect because it calls into question the very foundation of the…

Trump administration wants to remove protections for threatened Kansas bird • Kansas Reflector

The plight of the lesser prairie chicken, which roams in Kansas grasslands, wages on as the Trump Administration attempts to strip it of its protected species status. (Dave Kendall)TOPEKA — The Trump administration is attempting to strike protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a bird that has teetered between threatened and endangered for decades. The administration argued in a May 7 court filing that a Biden-era ruling granting 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…