Tag: black-tailed prairie dog

Black-tailed prairie dogs seem to be only victims to sylvatic plague, rather than reservoirs for the disease in the grasslands environments where they live. Sylvatic plague is the wildlife version...

Earlier this year, a black-tailed prairie dog (BTPD) colony expanded into a remote, rural cemetery surrounded by U.S. Forest Service (FS), state and private lands. Internments, which began in 1915...