The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

Prairies once extended in a broad, almost continuous band from southern Saskatchewan, Canada, into the Midwest and Central United States and southward to Texas and New Mexico. These vast grasslands ...

At the Lake Superior Zoo you can find community everywhere. However, there’s no community as organized as the prairie dogs. Zoo keeper Jessica Kretsch says, “they’ll have little colonies and ...