This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
TPWD explicitly lists lesser prairie-chicken among species with no open season; also federally listed as threatened.
Federally delisted March 2026, but Texas's own season remains closed. Governed by WAFWA's range-wide aerial survey; its own document library lists no report edition newer than 'Range-wide Population Size of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken 2012-2022,' posted October 2022 (confirmed via direct fetch 2026-08-19), despite the program remaining active per a January 2026-dated survey-protocol PDF. Correction: an earlier draft of this registry's Texas section attributed a '2025-26 mixed-grass increase / shinnery-oak decline' trend to this survey; traced on direct fetch to a WAFWA article actually published July 16, 2020 describing 2020 data with the opposite trend direction (shinnery-oak increase, mixed-grass decrease) -- not a 2026 finding, and corrected out of the registry.