On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation's largest colonies of ...
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A prairie dog stands at a burrow on the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands in South Dakota on July 14. Wildlife officials are working to protect prairie dogs and endangered black-footed ferrets from the ...
PIERRE, S.D. - One of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets is surviving despite the disease that has hit their home in a vast stretch of prairie dog towns south of Badlands ...
The area infected with the plague in Conata Basin has more than doubled in the past two weeks, threatening to overwhelm efforts of insecticide-dusting crews trying to keep the disease from decimating ...
DENVER (CBS4) - Black footed ferrets once hunted prairie dogs on Colorado's plains and western slope, but as humans built our communities, we wiped out their food source and they disappeared. In 2015, ...
PIERRE, S.D. - One of the nation's largest colonies of endangered black-footed ferrets is surviving despite the disease that has hit their home in a vast stretch of prairie dog towns south of Badlands ...
INTERIOR, S.D. — On the grasslands a few miles from the pinnacles and spires of Badlands National Park, federal wildlife officials have been waging a war since spring to save one of the nation’s ...