http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/article_463b2f3e-dfc4-11de-860b-001cc4c002e0.html
Feds decline to list prairie dogs
Black-tailed prairie dogs were denied protection under the Endangered Species Act on Wednesday, after federal officials concluded that the species shows signs of rebounding.
Decades of poisoning, shootings, the plague and loss of habitat to agriculture are blamed for a dramatic drop in prairie dog numbers since the early 1900s, from roughly 1 billion animals to an estimated 24 million today...
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Prairie Dogs Denied Protection
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