Lesser prairie chickens scatter in the early morning during mating season. TOPEKA — The lesser prairie chicken, a dancing grouse that has long teetered between threatened and endangered ...

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to ...

Nestled in the heart of the Kansas Flint Hills, Cottonwood Falls feels like a town that paused in time. With its historic courthouse, brick-lined streets, and classic prairie landscapes, walking ...

Less than four percent of America's 140 million acres of prairies remain. STRONG CITY, Kan., July 11, 2010— -- In the days when pioneers drove their wagons west, tallgrass prairies covered over ...

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, in the Kansas Flint Hills, protects one of the largest remaining sections of the prairie that once stretched from Canada to Mexico. Prairies used to stretch across ...

Less than 4% of this ecosystem is still intact in North America. Here’s how you can appreciate it fully. Courtesy of Ginny Varraveto Remember that time we went to the prairie grasslands and there was ...

An orange and black species of butterfly native to the Kansas prairies is declining in population, and federal wildlife officials want to protect it. The western regal fritillary butterfly, which ...

Lesser prairie chickens have lost most of their habitat. The lesser prairie chicken is threatened in its northern range, which includes Kansas and Oklahoma, and endangered in its southern range.

Kansas' Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is mentioned first on a list the Midwest Living website put out this month identifying the 20 best places for stargazing in the Midwest. "Destinations ...