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 Buffalo Gap National Grassla… ...

Prairie dogs: ranchers hate them, rattlesnakes love them. For centuries, farmers and ranchers of the Great Plains have been waging war on these tenacious rodents. Prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus ...

Early is not a prerequisite in prairie dog hunting since the sun is what brings them out of their burrows; it was simply a lack of patience that caused my sidewalk pacing.

If you decide to make a prairie dog hunting trip to the Rosebud, take plenty of shells. We went through over a case of the center fire ammunition apiece and several 50-round boxes of .17.

I have been a hunter all my life and find myself absolutely disgusted by Greg Gianforte and his proposed prairie dog “hunt.” Shooting prairie dogs or “gophers” is not hunting. It is simply ...

Prairie dog hunting is a way for landowners to control the population of the rodents, classified as "agricultural pests" because of the damage they can do to crops.

The area where the shooting occurred has signs indicating prairie dog hunting is banned indefinitely while federal and state officials observe, feed and count the prairie dogs until their ...

The Cowboy State is home to about two dozen locales for prairie dog hunting, including lodges, outfitters and reserves. In fact, prairie dog contest kills have taken place in the past. Wyoming ...

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 ...

Utah Prairie dogs, found only in the southwestern part of the state, are making a comeback. Consequently, the Utah Wildlife Board of the Division of Wildlife Resources has approved changes to how ...

Previous plans to limit prairie dog hunting or institute government protection stirred storms of protest.