Prairie chicken no longer threatened

Published July 19, 2016 6:20pm ET



The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the lesser prairie chicken from the list of endangered species on Tuesday.

The final rule, which will published in Wednesday’s Federal Register, complies with a Texas court order from last year that threw out the agency’s earlier determination that the bird be listed as threatened.

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