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A odd fact this dog town is the largest by area in the U.S and at one time had over a million dogs in the town also of note the black footed ferret was Re-introduced here and is doing quite well this is also one of the largest bald eagle Populations in the S.W. In the winter

This is the most scarred prairie dog our staff has ever seen. After taking this photo, Lauren Keller, an AmeriCorps Environmental Educator at Bluff Lake, also noticed this prairie dog had long scars running across its back. Our Natural Resource Manager, Tess Robeson, says the injuries may have been caused by "attempted predation and the prairie dog was able to escape, or contact fights between prairie dogs over territorial disputes." As far as we know, prairie dogs do not get scars like this from diseases like the plague. Please let us know if you have any other ideas about what may have caused them!