SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A pair of new programs will set aside Utah land as protected habitat for the state's endangered prairie dog. In 2004, Utah's prairie dogs numbered fewer than 4,000, earning them ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nine states have stepped into a lawsuit over the Utah prairie dog to support a ruling that animal activists say threatens to undermine the Endangered Species Act. The attorneys ...

SALT LAKE CITY | A court battle over a Utah prairie dog ruling that activists say could undermine the Endangered Species Act is set to come before a federal appeals court in Denver on Monday. U.S.

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Prairie dogs aren’t dogs at all but are actually a species of ground squirrels. They are cousins of the squirrels we find in our backyards. Prairie dogs live in big social groups called prairie dog ...

Prairie dogs, especially the bigger ones, apparently like peanut butter. About 70 percent of wild prairie dogs successfully ingested peanut butter flavored baits containing an oral sylvatic plague ...