The following is a letter to the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) from the American Petroleum Institute (API). API has submitted questions on the record concerning the relationship between the FWS 4(d) process and the Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) Range Wide Conservation Plan for the lesser prairie chicken. API notes that the current process “raises significant and substantive and procedural questions that require clarification by FWS.” View the full letter HERE.