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 ...

The wide, rolling grasslands offer more than a view away from the Rockies. They’re a classroom for thousands of Colorado ...

Last fall, I fell in love with prairie dogs on the American Prairie in Montana even though the hype for America’s Great Plains pointed me to bison. As impressive as North America’s largest land mammal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...

The federal government's decision not to seek protection for the black-tailed prairie dog Thursday appeased agricultural interests and angered conservation groups. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Groups frequently at odds with each other joined forces recently to lobby in Washington, D.C., for conservation of declining prairie species through landowner incentives. The contingent of ranchers, ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air. “Prairie ...