SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Now, after almost 30 years of temporary prairie dog hunting bans, the U.S. Forest Service will permanently ban prairie dog hunting in an area of the Conata Basin in the ...

It was still an hour and a half before the sun would peek over the mountain in the Cowboy State when David Nelson slipped out of bed and quietly made his way through the ranch house. He was careful to ...

Mary Peterson doesn’t regard the black-tailed prairie dog as a warm, fuzzy creature. The supervisor of southern Wyoming’s Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest knows that many ranchers in the Great ...

Easter egg hunts are springtime events that only the kiddos would love — said no one at the Prairie View Park in Morton Grove where dozens of family dogs also got in on the action last Saturday. The ...

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