Draft Environmental Assessment Infrastructure Improvements at Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge

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Draft Environmental Assessment Infrastructure Improvements at Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge

This Draft Environmental Assessment is being prepared to evaluate the effects associated with the proposed action and complies with the National Environmental Policy Act in accordance with Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR 1500-1509) and Department of the Interior (43 CFR 46; 516 DM 8) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (550 FW 3) regulations and policies. The National Environmental Policy Act requires examination of the effects of proposed actions on the natural and human environment.

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A plump barred prairie-chicken raises his tail feathers and struts in the short grass.
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge
Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge was established to protect the critically endangered Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken, a ground-dwelling grouse of the coastal prairie ecosystem. Located approximately 60 miles west of Houston, Texas, this refuge is home to one of the largest remnants of...
National Wildlife Refuge
Eagle Lake,TX
Species
A plump barred prairie-chicken raises his tail feathers and struts in the short grass.

Just over 100 years ago, the sounds of male Attwater’s Prairie-Chickens could be heard throughout the gulf coast prairies of Texas and Louisiana, when they numbered up to about 1 million birds.  However, through the 1900s, the Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken’s numbers dwindled to the edge of...

FWS Focus
Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Taxonomic Rank
Subspecies
Ecosystem
Prairie
Subject tags
Endangered and/or Threatened species
FWS and DOI Region(s)
Southwest