Colorado State University researchers have identified priority areas for conserving the black-tailed prairie dog in the ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

I wanted to offer a suggestion for future articles on this subject: a deeper exploration of what it means that prairie dogs are a keystone species. While you briefly mentioned their status as such, ...

The HOA Board at Harvest Junction Village, in Longmont, voted to exterminate or relocate a prairie dog colony located within ...

However, prairie dogs aren’t known to carry disease and are actually what is known as a “keystone” species for a habitat. A keystone species is one that, if it disappears, can cause the ...

HOA meeting in Longmont will explore the potential extermination or other means of mitigation of a colony. But some neighbors argue the animals are vital to the eco ...

Black-tailed prairie dogs, the best known of the five prairie dog species, live in larger communities called towns, which may contain many hundreds of animals. Typically they cover less than half ...

Nearly a decade ago, a colony of prairie dogs was relocated to a meadow west ... a nonprofit that advocates for the keystone ...

Conserving this habitat benefits other grassland species that depend on the prairie dog for food and habitat. Published in Diversity and Distributions in January, this research and accompanying ...

The black-tailed prairie dog is an intelligent, sociable rodent that's a keystone species in the prairie ecosystem it calls home. This precocious little mammal is perfectly suited to its environment, ...

Prairie dogs: Keystone species of the grasslands The depletion of grasslands is attributed to the detrimental farming practices of the late 1800s, and as grasslands have suffered, so has the ...

Prairie dogs serve as a keystone species but have little special protection under state law. According to Colorado Parks and Wildlife, black-tailed prairie dogs are abundant in Colorado and are ...