Colorado Springs is a wildlife mecca. Our parks and open spaces provide habitat for hundreds of animal species. A wide diversity of birds, mammals and reptiles often grace our presence in these ...

Ensuring a vital population of black-tailed prairie dogs is key to the survival of the federally protected black-footed ferret, which the Fish and Wildlife Service has reintroduced into Wyoming. The ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Now, after almost 30 years of temporary prairie dog hunting bans, the U.S. Forest Service will permanently ban prairie dog hunting in an area of the Conata Basin in the ...

DENVER – Along with other western states in cooperation with the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Colorado Parks and Wildlife has conducted an east slope survey of black-tailed ...

Some new furry faces have popped up at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo. Black-tailed prairie dog pups that were born around three weeks ago underground in the Bridgeport zoo's habitat have begun coming to ...

Researchers Courtney Duchardt, right, then a UW Ph.D. student, and David Augustine, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, examine a mountain plover in the Thunder Basin National Grassland. Mountain ...

There’s a lot of activity on a piece of commercial property off Route 66 in Yukon. The highly desirable area is home to several new developments. However, it’s also home to a colony of native ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Zoo celebrated the arrival of nine black-tailed prairie dog pups on Friday. This week, nine pups popped out from their underground homes at the prairie dog habitat in ...

Some of the San Francisco Zoo's black-tailed prairie dogs are now proud parents to nine pups. The zoo announced the pups' arrival Friday morning. According to officials, first there were two, then ...

People who “massacre” prairie dogs in Colorado should have to pick up the lead-riddled carcasses, says a group calling for ...

Prairie dogs and groundhogs are incredibly similar animals, often so much so that people may think they are different names for the same creature! While that isn’t the case, it’s easy to see how it ...

When I headed to Montana to visit the American Prairie, I had bison on my mind. They are the quintessential plains animal and North America’s largest land mammal. But what I didn’t expect was for a ...