Lesser Prairie Chicken Rule Inadequate to Save Charismatic Grassland Birds in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas (Center for Biological Diversity)

(Source: Center for Biological Diversity) For Immediate Release, December 10, 2013 Contact: Jay Lininger, (928) 853-9929, jlininger@biologicaldiversity.org Lesser Prairie Chicken Rule Inadequate to Save Charismatic Grassland Birds in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The Center for Biological Diversity blasted a proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for its failure to protect lesser prairie chicken from extinction, as well as for its reliance on a voluntary conservation plan that will fail to recover populations of the grassland bird. "This rule affords no meaningful protection to lesser prairie chickens," said Jay Lininger, a...