A group of Kansas agricultural producers and the Kansas Natural Resource Coalition are suing the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for its lesser prairie-chicken protections.
Attorney Charles Yates with Pacific Legal Foundation is representing the group of landowners and county boards of commissioners.
“The federal government has just imposed enormous regulations on land use across an enormous area of the country, a large area of western Kansas, and it hasn’t engaged in the proper process to do so,” he says.
