SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — 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 ...

A gun owners’ group is trying to shoot down a ban on prairie dog hunting, imposed by the Bureau of Land Management to preserve habitat for the endangered black-footed ferret. The Montana Shooting ...

Some prairie dog hunters come to the great northwest to shoot thousands of rounds of ammunition of various calibers at “dogs” at very long ranges. This is certainly fun, but that was not my goal, and ...

Sen. John Thune this week said AR-15s are necessary in his home state to hunt prairie dogs.Alex Wong/Getty Images South Dakota Sen. John Thune was asked why people need AR-15s. In response, he argued ...

Because of its versatility, utility and popularity, the AR-style rifle is inexorably embedded in the American hunting culture. So ubiquitous is this style of rifle that it is outpacing its perjorative ...

State wildlife officials are investigating the shooting death of a prairie dog east of Sonoita last week. An Oro Valley deer hunter is suspected of killing the black-tailed prairie dog Friday in a U.S ...

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 Great ...

HELENA — Donald Trump Jr. will be targeting more than just Montana's Republican voters on Friday and Saturday when he helps Greg Gianforte campaign for an open U.S. House seat. A prairie dog hunt is ...