A Colorado homeowners association has voted to allow the relocation of a prairie dog colony living in a community open space -- but only until March 1. After that, any remaining prairie dogs will ...

A Casper-area man said it took him by surprise to learn that shooting prairie dogs from a vehicle is illegal. Another avid ...

When a predator approaches the prairie dog town. As an all-clear signal when the predator is gone. During a territory dispute between two prairie dogs. When meeting other prairie dogs. However ...

and they’re gone.” A plague vaccine does exist, and is used to protect highly endangered species like black-footed ferrets. But it’s simply not possible to jab every prairie dog in the West.

The HOA Board at Harvest Junction Village, in Longmont, voted to exterminate or relocate a prairie dog colony located within ...

Prairie dogs occupy an estimated 130,000 acres of rangeland in Kansas. This is about 1 percent of suitable habitat, leaving ample room for prairie dogs to increase in Kansas.

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

Hidden under the snowy ground of a Longmont neighborhood open space lives a colony of prairie dogs. Their fate will soon be decided by their neighbors, the Harvest Junction Village HOA.

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, ...