Prairie Dog Myth

Black-tailed Prairie Dog by Paul Carroll

The black-tailed prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, is a resident of western Kansas as well as parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona.

This means you will not find black-tailed prairie dogs in eastern Kansas where I live. But that’s not the prairie dog myth I’m talking [...]

July 20th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Native Animals | 3 comments

Scotland to Spend $1.4M on Four Beaver Families

OK, it sounds crazy. $1.4 million on four beaver families? What are the Scots thinking? Maybe they just have more money than sense. Even though I’m a naturalist at heart, that was the first thought that popped into my head when I read about this last night. So, what is really going on?

Beavers used to [...]

August 18th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Native Animals | , , , , , , , , | Category: Native Animals | .4M on Four Beaver Families">Leave a comment