Tucson, AZ-(ENEWSPF)- A lengthy legal battle in the fight over protection for lesser prairie chickens ended last night with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bowing to pressure from states to leave the beleaguered birds without Endangered Species Act protection. Lesser prairie chickens were protected as “threatened” in 2014, leading to outcry from states where the birds live, despite legal loopholes that allowed continued oil and gas drilling in their habitat. In 2015 a court in…
