February 2 is Prairie Dog Day, created in 2003 by conservation groups in the American West as an alternative to Groundhog Day. The goal is to create awareness for the important place prairie dogs have in prairie ecosystems, from providing food for a wide variety of predators to building massive burrows that eventually become homes for a wide variety of species, and for the negative effects human-caused habitat loss and extermination campaigns against prairie dogs have had on prairie ecology.

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New Twist on Groundhog Day (WildEarth Guardians)

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