KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two conservation groups have sued the Environmental Protection Agency for its decision to register pesticides that curtail prairie dogs, the main source of food for the endangered ...

CHADRON — Prairie dogs on federal land in northwest Nebraska will live a little longer while the U.S. Forest Service considers several appeals to its planned poisoning program. Four appeals were filed ...

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe has begun providing prairie dog poison on a limited basis. The Tribal Land Enterprises office provides bait and zinc phosphide poison to ranchers licensed to use the poison.

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...

LUBBOCK, Texas — When deciding to manage prairie dogs by using gas or poison, they run the risk of hurting other creatures that were probably in those burrows, which could affect the ecosystem, ...

Slobodchikoff conducted most of his research on the Gunnison's prairie dog species in the vicinity of Flagstaff. Prairie dogs, considered pests by many ranchers and farmers, were extirpated by ...