and prairie dogs have seen massive decreases in numbers. But there are pockets of hope in these vast grasslands. The swift fox holds deep cultural significance to the Nakoda (Assiniboine ...

Without prairie dogs, black-footed ferrets would never survive outside zoos and breeding facilities, and we would have far fewer mountain plovers, burrowing owls, swift foxes, and ferruginous hawks.

A key to maintaining the sagebrush prairie where the sage-grouse ... making them the tiniest fox species in North America. Swift foxes will feed on everything from insects to rodents to birds ...

Where clouds sail over miles of grass, the original life of the prairie endures: a set of swift fox kits wrestle at the mouth of their den, fledged longspurs take their first flights, a greater ...