The black-tailed prairie dog has been dropped from the federal endangered species candidate list, a move embraced by farmers and ranchers but which some conservationists decried as a mistake.

Hours after being released into a prairie dog town on the vast Southern Plains Land Trust, a game camera picked up on one of five captive born black-footed ferrets finding a burrow for the night. So ...

The black-footed ferret exhibit at American Prairie's National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Montana, just opened to the ...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Landowners in southwestern South Dakota are asking the state to compensate them for losses caused by black-tailed prairie dogs that moved from federal land onto the ranchers' ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Prairie dogs are ecosystem engineers whose landscaping helps define the North American Great Plains. This species of ground squirrel spends a ...

Groups frequently at odds with each other joined forces recently to lobby in Washington, D.C., for conservation of declining prairie species through landowner incentives. The contingent of ranchers, ...