The collective stare of environmental activists penetrated the pulpit in the Longmont City Council chambers on Nov. 12, 2024. After a barrage of statements from the public calling for the city to put ...

Jaime Fraina walks almost every day along Left Hand Creek in Longmont, where he enjoys a little fresh air and nature. Fraina particularly likes seeing the prairie dogs, which he often sees calling to ...

Hidden under the snowy ground of a Longmont neighborhood open space lives a colony of prairie dogs. Their fate will soon be decided by their neighbors, the Harvest Junction Village HOA. Amid ongoing ...

Prairie dogs in Longmont are getting a second chance at life with help from a dedicated group of volunteers. At Dry Creek Community Park, volunteers are trapping and removing prairie dogs from their ...

This industrious bunch is part of the largest black-tailed prairie dog town in the Trans-Pecos, the desert region that stretches from the Pecos River west to El Paso and encompasses the Big Bend area.

Researchers have identified priority areas for conserving the black-tailed prairie dog in the United States. Protecting these regions will also benefit North America's Central Grasslands and the many ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...