Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days? – Joseph P., via email Answer: Prairie dogs play a key role in ...

AWI is partnering with the Humane Society of the United States on emergency disease mitigation in South Dakota’s Conata Basin, home to the world’s largest remaining colony of black-tailed prairie dogs ...

It is transmitted by fleas often carried by rodents in the wild, including rats and prairie dogs. Plague occurs when infected ...

When an epidemic of plague struck prairie dogs within South Dakota’s greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem last spring, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service black-footed ferret biologists and their state ...