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Friday, May 17, 2013  The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says it’s being proactive in finding ways to protect the habitat of the lesser prairie chicken.

Friday, March 15, 2013  According to a news release from Amarillo Police Department, Investigator High received a call from a Kentucky woman regarding the endangered teen. She told the investigator that Alicia had made it to Kennesaw, Georgia where she was staying at a residence.

Friday, March 15, 2013  UPDATE:  Alicia Velasquez was found in Georgia.

Friday, February 15, 2013  Friday the Panhandle Produces & Royalty Owners Association briefed its members and the public on the potential listing of the Lesser Prairie Chicken as an endangered species.

Monday, September 24, 2012  'Science Guy' Bill Nye says religious-based dismissal of evolution endangers US science

Tuesday, July 17, 2012  FBI tracking dogs joining search for Iowa cousins, 8 and 10, as trail goes cold

Friday, July 13, 2012  A missing 44-year-old woman who police say has a medical condition that deems her endangered and a risk of getting harmed is believed to be in the Amarillo area.

Thursday, June 14, 2012  Study: Cougars again spreading across the Midwest a century after they were nearly wiped out

Thursday, February 16, 2012  A Clovis man who New Mexico health officials were trying to locate because of a serious medical condition has turned himself in.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012  A man is missing out of Curry Curry County and officials say he is considered a Missing-Endangered-Caution Person.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to put the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard on the Endangered Species List, and that poses a potential threat to the oil and natural gas industry in the Permian Basin.

Monday, February 21, 2011  Clarendon's Mulky theatre was listed as one of the top 10 most endangered historical places in Texas.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 

Monday, July 19, 2010  The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has extended a comment period through July 22 on state listings of threatened and endangered species.

Friday, April 30, 2010  Flies buzz everywhere and the stench is overwhelming as biologist Lyndsey Howell stops to analyze the remains of yet another endangered sea turtle washed up from the Gulf of Mexico.