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Can Prairie Dogs Save Mexico’s Prairie From the Desert?

Living on Earth
September 17, 2013
  • By Ari Daniel
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There were once billions of black-tailed prairie dogs across the prairies of the West and Mexico. Today there is only a fraction of the original population left but activists in Mexico are working to bring back the prairie dogs and help restore the prairie along with them.

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