{"id":27418,"date":"2025-05-08T17:23:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27418"},"modified":"2025-05-08T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:29:01","slug":"trump-officials-ask-texas-court-to-end-protections-for-lesser-prairie-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=27418","title":{"rendered":"Trump Officials Ask Texas Court to End Protections for Lesser Prairie Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The lesser prairie chicken, known for the males\u2019 quirky courtship dance, inhabits grasslands sought-after by farming and energy developers.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune of inhabiting southern and central grasslands long sought-after for agriculture and energy development.<\/p>\n

In a court filing on Wednesday, officials said the Fish and Wildlife Service had erred in a Biden-era decision that placed the bird on the endangered species list.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the latest in a blur of actions by the White House seeking to weaken or eliminate environmental regulations that constrain President Trump\u2019s \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the latest twist for a species whose fate has been fought over for three decades.<\/p>\n

Lesser prairie chickens \u2014 known for the males\u2019 quirky courtship displays of stamping, fanning their tail feathers and \u201cflutter jumping\u201d \u2014 have declined from historic estimates of hundreds of thousands or even millions to only about 30,000 today. Habitat loss is the main culprit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPresident Trump will always fight to end burdensome regulations on America\u2019s agriculture industry, especially as many ranchers participate in voluntary protections of the lesser prairie chicken\u2019s habitat,\u201d Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said.<\/p>\n

The filing, in United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, said the Fish and Wildlife Service expected to re-evaluate the bird\u2019s status by Nov. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n

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The lesser prairie chicken, known for the males\u2019 quirky courtship dance, inhabits grasslands sought-after by farming and energy developers.The Trump administration has moved to end federal protections for the lesser prairie chicken, a showy grouse with the misfortune of inhabiting southern and central grasslands long sought-after for agriculture and energy development.In a court filing on Wednesday, officials said the Fish and Wildlife Service had erred in a Biden-era decision that placed the bird on the endangered species list.It\u2019s the latest in a blur of actions by the White House seeking to weaken or eliminate environmental regulations that constrain President Trump\u2019s \u201cdrill, baby, drill\u201d agenda.And it\u2019s the latest twist for a species whose fate has been fought over for three decades.Lesser prairie chickens \u2014 known for the males\u2019 quirky courtship displays of stamping, fanning their tail feathers and \u201cflutter jumping\u201d \u2014 have declined from historic estimates of hundreds of thousands or even millions to only about 30,000 today. Habitat loss is the main culprit.\u201cPresident Trump will always fight to end burdensome regulations on America\u2019s agriculture industry, especially as many ranchers participate in voluntary protections of the lesser prairie chicken\u2019s habitat,\u201d Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said.The filing, in United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, said the Fish and Wildlife Service expected to re-evaluate the bird\u2019s status by Nov. 30, 2026.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27420,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27421,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27418\/revisions\/27421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}