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

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.

Prairie dogs start barking bloody murder and scramble for their burrows as a hawk glides fast and low over the colony. The emergency broadcast gives the rotund fur balls ample warning. For the raptor, ...

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' ...