The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. For more than a decade, Iowans have gathered at the Kellerton Grasslands Bird Conservation Area at ...

A U.S. District Court in Texas has vacated a decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened and endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act. It was a winding path to get such ...

Sen. Roger Marshall posted this GIF image after the Senate voted to revoke federal protection for lesser prairie chickens. Hilarity ensued. Twitter/RogerMarshallMD Let’s get one thing clear from the ...

“If they don't survive, that's a sad statement about our society…they've been a part of this land for thousands and thousands of years. And if what we've done, in the way we've taken care of the land, ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior moved Wednesday to overturn a 2022 decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as endangered in some places and threatened in others, citing mistakes made in the ...

The call of a male Attwater's prairie chicken during mating season can sound like a mix of a foghorn and a cat howling, but it's music to the ears of Kirk Feuerbacher. Feuerbacher, working land ...

About 10 years ago at this time in April, my friend Mike and I left Onalaska in the middle of the night to drive to a dance, which was to begin just before dawn. We hiked in the dark from a gravel ...

CLAY COUNTY, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has placed a livestreaming camera at The Nature Conservancy’s Bluestem Prairie Preserve in Clay County to showcase the sights and ...