Matt Rogers has used the Game, Fish and Parks prairie dog control program for three years and it has been successful on his pasture ground. Matt Rogers used the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks ...

Ensuring a vital population of black-tailed prairie dogs is key to the survival of the federally protected black-footed ferret, which the Fish and Wildlife Service has reintroduced into Wyoming. The ...

DENVER — As a way of controlling prairie dog populations, at least one private landowner got a law passed last year to allow him to reintroduce the black-footed ferret. Under a bill that won ...

The diminutive prairie dog plays an outsized role in the prairie ecosystem. As vital prey for some species and habitat creators for others through their complex system of burrows, they support ...

Prairie dogs and livestock consume similar forage, raising the question as to how much the existence of prairie dogs on livestock pasture affects livestock production. Despite many studies trying to ...

BISMARCK -- Good neighbors keep their prairie dogs, like any dog, on their side of the property line. In a nutshell, that’s what the U.S. Forest Service is aiming to accomplish with its proposed plan ...

No widespread protection, but prairie dogs have at least 1 friend The prairie dog, reviled by landowners and rejected in most parts for potential protection as a threatened or endangered species, ...

LINCOLN, Neb. - A new plan to manage prairie dogs on federal land in northwestern Nebraska and central and southwestern South Dakota could be in use by the end of the month. The plan will allow more ...

Editor’s note: This article has been updated to correct the group affiliations of Longmont residents who spoke to the City Council. The Longmont City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to refer a ...

The city of Boulder’s Open Space & Mountain Parks’ land system is no stranger to prairie dogs. And depending who you ask, that can either be a very good or bad thing. “What we’re concerned with is ...