Science news articles about 'prairie dog colonies'
Ouch! Taking a shot at plague
... to control plague outbreaks is to apply insecticide that will reduce the flea populations in the prairie dog colonies that are important to black-footed ferrets, but that have not yet experienced ...Plague threatens prairie dogs, endangered ferrets
... 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 endangered black-footed ferrets....