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

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.

The black-footed ferret exhibit at American Prairie’s National Discovery Center in Lewistown, Mont., just opened to the public on Nov. 14. When I went to Montana in September to visit American Prairie ...

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 ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and ...

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' ...

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, ...