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		Web Links
		Acme Pet http://acmepet.com/exotic/pdogfaq.html This fascinating and informative site offers details on keeping prairie dogs as pets. Mischief’s Prairie Dog Central http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8393/i_pdcentral.html Burrow through diverse links to sites on prairie dogs. Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center http://www.npsc.nbs.gov/resource/distr/mammals/mammals/prairie.htm Learn about the black-tailed prairie dog at the Biological Resources division of the United States Geological Survey. Ronnie Dog http://www.eventwriter.com/ronnie/ Meet the first pet prairie dog to have his own Web site. Smithsonian http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues98/mar98/prairie.html See another magazine site on prairie dogs. Texas Parks and Wildlife http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/wild/mammals/prairie.htm This site presents a wildlife fact sheet on the black-tailed prairie dog. Utah Prairie Dog http://ucs.byu.edu/bioag/botany/rushforth/www/conserve/endanger/DOG.HTM Brigham Young University’s Conservation Biology program provides information on the rare Utah prairie dog.
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		NGS Resources
WORLD		Wilsdon, Christina. “Gaining Ground.” Pages 2-5, February 1997.
WORLD		Sunquist, Fiona. “A Fighting Chance for Ferrets.” Pages 15-18, September 1996.
Map		“Prairie Provinces.” NGM map supplement, December 1994.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC		Chadwick, Douglas H. “The American Prairie: Roots of the Sky.” Pages 90-119, October 1993.
Book		Fisher, Ron. The Heartland of a Continent: America’s Plains and Prairies. 1991.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC		Hodgson, Bryan. “North Dakota-Tough Times on the Prairie.” Pages 320-347, March 1987.
Map		“The Making of America: The Central Plains.”, NGM map supplement September 1985.
WORLD		“Playful Prairie Dogs.” Pages 2-5, March 1983.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC		Farney, Dennis. “The Tallgrass Prairie: Can it be Saved?” Pages 37-61, January 1980.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC		Clark, Tim W. “The Hard Life of the Prairie Dog.” Pages 270-281, August 1979.
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		Additional Resources
		Chace, G. Earl. Wonders of Prairie Dogs. Dodd, Mead, 1976. Costello, David Francis. The World of the Prairie Dog. Lippincott, 1970. Hoogland, John L. The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal. University of Chicago Press, 1995. Manning, Richard. Grassland: the History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie. Penguin, 1997. Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw. Prairie Dogs. Clarion Books, 1993. Samson, Fred B. Prairie Conservation: Preserving North America’s Most Endangered Ecosystem. Island Press, 1996.
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