The mid-year Farm Bureau conference began Thursday at Southern Utah University in Cedar City and focused on issues from groundwater to prairie dogs. The conference continues Friday in the ballroom ...

At first glance, wide-open fields may look like just another stretch of Utah's vast landscape. But look a little closer, and you might spot signs of life — a colony of over 2,000 prairie dogs ...

I love the prairie dogs at Teddy Roosevelt National Park. Those cute little animals stand alert and zip down the hole whenever there’s a threat. Kind of reminds me of our Congress people.

White-tailed prairie dogs live in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Gunnison’s prairie dogs eke out an existence in southern Colorado, and Utah prairie dogs live in, well, Utah. Mexican ...

White-tailed prairie dogs live in parts of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Gunnison’s prairie dogs eke out an existence in southern Colorado, and Utah prairie dogs live in, well ...

two of the five species of prairie dogs are endangered: Utah and Mexican prairie dogs. When the settlers moved west, they thought prairie dogs were “vermin” and full of disease. They killed ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) | Government attorneys are defending federal protections for Utah prairie dogs after 10 states stepped into the case in favor of a ruling that animal activists say could ...

According to a national group called NatureServe that looks out for America's critters, a century ago there were 95,000 Utah prairie dogs burrowed into the counties in southwestern Utah.

Utah wildlife managers are rewriting some of their rules regarding the state's federally-protected Utah prairie dog with hopes the species might be delisted under the Endangered Species Act.