Prairie dogs — the long-reviled rodents that pester developers and ranchers yet play a key role for Great Plains ecosystems — not only are surviving but may be far more abundant in Colorado than ...

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 ...

GUNNISON, Colo. (CBS4)-- One concern about prairie dogs in Colorado is their capacity to carry fleas infected with bubonic plague. But now there's a vaccine. "We're gonna be out here today treating ...

AMAR — Somewhere between the comforts of a plastic tote outfitted with clean, shredded paper and a bloody quarter of a prairie dog for snacks, and the yawning dark hole he was being tipped into as ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado ” Despite Thursday’s unanimous decision by the Colorado Wildlife Commission to continue allowing prairie dog shooting, the topic won’t soon die. “We’re definitely not done ...

DENVER ” The state Wildlife Division estimates Colorado has about 788,000 acres of black-tailed prairie dog colonies, up 25 percent from five years ago. The survey results, announced Tuesday, are part ...

The majority of Coloradans depend on the prairie and don’t even know it. It’s much more than a flat carpet of tumbleweed-infested dirt clods. It’s an economic catalyst. Covering about 40 percent of ...

The lineage late last year expanded to a nature preserve in southeastern Colorado, where 10 bison of the conservation herd were transplanted. In the coming months, a bigger group is due for protected ...