Texas Fauna Project

Black-tailed Prairie Dog

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Russell Graves has worked as a writer (producing the book, "The Prairie Dog: Sentinel of the Plains"), a photographer, and a teacher. Here he tells about the decade that he spent taking students from the Childress high school to study a nearby prairie dog town, and what they learned about the prairie dog and its impacts on soil, groundwater infiltration, and forage, plus its surprising benefits to cattle.