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The pdp newsletter is out!

The 2024 newsletter has been published. You can download it at: 2025 Newsletter...

UNM Researchers Find Live Hantavirus is Carried in More Than 30 New Mexico Small Mammal Species

Ever since 1993, when a deadly disease outbreak in the Four Corners first revealed the presence of...

Federal judge buries Colorado environmental group’s third lawsuit seeking to block prairie dog kills

DENVER (CN) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed an environmentalist group’s third lawsuit against...

Prairie dogs in steep decline

Dear EarthTalk: “Are prairie dogs threatened or endangered these days?” – Joseph P., via...

Green Urge Federal Protection For Prairie Dogs

EarthTalk Q&A Shashwat Mishra March 12, 2025 Dear EarthTalk: Are prairie dogs threatened or...

Wild Cam: Watch coyotes hunt with badgers

March 11, 2025 by Olivia Milloway ‘Uneasy alliance’ may provide benefits to both mesopredators Emma...

Hantavirus: New Mexico’s long trail of disease, death

By Olivier Uyttebrouck / Journal Staff WriterMar 7, 2025 Updated Mar 8, 2025 Hantavirus pulmonary...

First outreach event of 2024

On March 4 3:30 pm Jim T presented his Prairie Dogs in Peril lecture to 4 classes of 1st and 2nd...

PDP General Meeting

The PDP annual general meeting was conducted on 1 February 2025. You can read the minutes by...