This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
Present only in a few central-Wisconsin conservation strongholds (Buena Vista, Leola, Paul J. Olson Wildlife Areas) under an active DNR management plan (2022-2032). Does not appear on WI DNR's Hunt > Season Dates page and no /topic/hunt page exists for the species — treated as having no open hunting season in Wisconsin.
WI DNR runs an active annual spring booming-ground male count at Buena Vista, Leola, and Paul J. Olson Wildlife Areas (species carries no open season anywhere in WI -- a "monitoring continues despite closure" case). A direct fetch of DNR's own prairie-chicken management page on 2026-08-19 confirmed the most recent linked survey report is still "Prairie Chicken Survey 2025" -- no 2026 edition posted yet. (A widely-repeated "210 males at Buena Vista" figure surfaced via WebSearch could not be pinned to a specific year via direct fetch and was not used, to avoid a stale-attribution error; a dated April 2025 article instead documents 288 males on 37 leks statewide for that year.)