Bet on a prairie chicken listing

The federal government is due to make a decision this month on whether to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened, endangered, or secure.  Its a bird whose population has gone from 2 million to 20,000 in recorded history.  To predict a threatened listing, you really don't need to know more than these four facts.  1) Its population dropped by 50% just in the last year.  2)  It lives in a dry grassland habitat in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado.  3) Its habitat, like most on the planet, suffers during drought.  4) This map of projected drought.