The Southern Great Plains offers a particular advantage. Prairie dogs do not fully hibernate. They surface at midday to feed ...

Natural communities and ecosystems are often maintained by one or more keystone species within them. A keystone species is a species upon that other species in an ecosystem depend on so much that if ...

Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for the conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States, extending from Montana to Texas and New Mexico to ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs exist on more than double the Montana acreage previously estimated, the state wildlife department has told the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as the federal agency considers ...