FWS Proposes New Import, Export Restrictions for Lesser Prairie Chicken
The Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list two populations of the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), a grassland bird known from southeastern Colorado, western Kansas, eastern New Mexico, western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, under the Endangered Species…
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Act. The agency’s June 1 proposed rule would list the southern population as endangered, and the northern population as threatened but with a 4(d) rule that prohibits imports and exports. FWS had listed the lesser prairie chicken in 2014 before revoking the listing two years later in accordance with a court order. Comments are due by Aug. 2.