City will continue to use lethal control methods and maintain a pilot program that helps landowners pay for barriers.

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 ...

People who “massacre” prairie dogs in Colorado should have to pick up the lead-riddled carcasses, says a group calling for ...

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 ...

DENVER (CN) — A divided 10th Circuit on Monday reversed a lower court’s approval of a Thunder Basin National Grassland management plan that removed protections for the black-tailed prairie dogs needed ...

If a landowner put little leashes on his prairie dogs to keep them off neighboring land, would that count as a management technique, asked Sen. Ernie Chambers during debate on a black-tailed prairie ...

A program was undertaken to develop zinc phosphide as a replacement for the more hazardous toxicants currently available to control black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Four field trials ...