Prairie dog die-off wreaks havoc on other species

Researchers Courtney Duchardt, right, then a UW Ph.D. student, and David Augustine, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, examine a mountain plover in the Thunder Basin National Grassland. Mountain plovers, a bird that thrives when vegetation is kept shorter by prairie dogs, almost disappeared from the study area when plague decimated prairie dog numbers in 2017. Read Entire Article

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