The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

Female Utah prairie dog collecting nesting material. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the March 8, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by John Hoogland at ...

The case involves the Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens), a species listed as threatened under the ESA. The Utah prairie dog resides only in Utah. In November 2014, Judge Dee Benson of the US ...

two of the five species of prairie dogs are endangered: Utah and Mexican prairie dogs. When the settlers moved west, they thought prairie dogs were “vermin” and full of disease. They killed ...

White-tailed prairie dogs live in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Gunnison’s prairie dogs eke out an existence in southern Colorado, and Utah prairie dogs live in, well ...

Though black-tailed prairie dogs have a long-standing reputation as pests, their ingenious tunnel systems and industrious prairie pruning make them one of the West’s primary ecosystem engineers.