Even though prairie dogs are a keystone species across the West with shrinking population numbers, they are as-yet not federally protected.

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Tina Jackson, who led the species’ recovery across 12 states–including Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and ...

This animal's long slender body, like that of a weasel, enables it to crawl in and out of the holes and dwellings of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat ...

People for Native Ecosystems, which was formed more than 16 years ago, does not support feeding wildlife in general.

Then in 1981 a small relict population was discovered in a Wyoming prairie dog colony. Between 1991 and 1999, ferrets from that population were released at 29 sites in Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, ...