BILLINGS — Thomas Christie’s grave in Boothill Cemetery, dug in 1882, is being excavated. Black-tailed prairie dogs have tunneled into the historic grave and many others in the Heights cemetery.

Boulder County has begun removing prairie dogs at the Heil Valley Ranch hiking area and sending them to a facility where many will be eaten alive by ferrets, prompting outrage from local residents.

Most mornings, wildlife biologist Jessica Van Woeart and her team go to work armed with peanut butter. In upscale subdivisions and across rural pastures in southern Utah, they use it to help trap ...

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d waddled innocently outside for a breakfast of mini marshmallows ...

A private company has been fined by the city of Fort Collins for failing to obtain the proper permit before work that disturbed a prairie colony in preparation of a city road construction project. Zak ...

Prairie dogs are highly social animals belonging to the squirrel family. There are five species of prairie dogs in North America, however, just ‘the black tailed prairie dog” is native to South Dakota ...

Boulder County commissioners agreed Thursday to lift a seasonal moratorium on lethal prairie dog control in an attempt to better address burgeoning prairie dog colonies on agricultural lands. The ...

This study, conducted from 2015-19 in the Thunder Basin National Grassland, may be the first to specifically examine the multispecies impacts of a wide-scale plague outbreak, which reduced the area ...

Prairie dogs and the big picture -- The life of prairie dogs. Interlude: taxonomy and prairie dog taxonomists -- The social behavior of prairie dogs. Interlude: social behavior-trapping prairie dogs - ...