This past month was an awesome experience as we were surveying some of the last remaining prairie dog towns of significant size in North and South Dakota. These surveys were conducted at night and ...

Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

Across North America, you really only run into three main kinds of wild deer, and once you know what to look for, they are surprisingly easy to tell apart. Instead of memorizing a field guide, you can ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

Groups frequently at odds with each other joined forces recently to lobby in Washington, D.C., for conservation of declining prairie species through landowner incentives. The contingent of ranchers, ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d waddled innocently outside for a breakfast of mini marshmallows ...

The black-tailed prairie dog has been dropped from the federal endangered species candidate list, a move embraced by farmers and ranchers but which some conservationists decried as a mistake.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission recently endorsed the state s controversial plan to conserve black-tailed prairie dogs and tentatively OK d a seasonal shooting ban on the species. The ...