“It’s the best way to not only protect the bird, but to allow people to do business,” 

— “The lesser prairie chicken has historically called five states home, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, but continued land fragmentation and degradation has reduced the bird’s historical occupancy range by an estimated 84 percent”.

http://www.currentargus.com/carlsbad-news/ci_25433458/lesser-prairie-chicken-declared-threatened