The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs, the best known of the five prairie dog species, live in larger communities called towns, which may contain many hundreds of animals. Typically they cover less than half ...

A Casper-area man said it took him by surprise to learn that shooting prairie dogs from a vehicle is illegal. Another avid hunter said he also didn’t ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for conserving the black-tailed prairie dog in the ...

Groundhog Day is almost here and although we do not have groundhogs in the Treasure State we do have some close relatives like the marmot, ground squirrels and prairie dogs.

The situation was worse than she realized: Prairie dogs are among the most maligned and persecuted animal species in the Western U.S. So maligned, in fact, that a 2020 survey in northern Montana ...

Conserving this habitat benefits other grassland species that depend on the prairie dog for food and habitat. Published in Diversity and Distributions in January, this research and accompanying ...

Furthermore, two of the five species of prairie dogs are endangered: Utah and Mexican prairie dogs. When the settlers moved west, they thought prairie dogs were “vermin” and full of disease.

A Wyoming man told legislators that he and his friends were flabbergasted when a game warden confronted them about illegally ...