The City of Lawton is laying poison bait for prairie dogs in hopes of curbing their population in Elmer Thomas Park.

Even as the black-tailed prairie dog is being considered for Endangered Species Act protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Environmental Protection Agency is considering approving a ...

Prairie dogs live in underground burrows, extensive warrens of tunnels and chambers marked by many mounds of packed earth at their surface entrances. Burrows have defined nurseries, sleeping ...

Black-footed ferrets evolved to prey on prairie dogs and nearly went extinct in part because of a federal program to systematically poison prairie dogs on behalf of the livestock industry beginning a ...

populations of the five prairie dog species have declined by around 95 percent—with two listed under the Endangered Species Act—due to a variety of threats, including habitat destruction and ...

poison, and plague were all factors in the black-footed ferret nearly becoming extinct. The animals are predators that primarily feed on prairie dogs. According to CPW, prairie dogs are close to ...