1997 - Mulhern & Knowles: Black-tailed prairie dog status and future conservation planning (PDF - 176.49 kB)
1999 - Kotliar et al: A critical review of assumptions about the prairie dog as a keystone species (PDF - 181.78 kB)
2000 - USFWS: 12-month finding for a petition to list the black-tailed prairie dog as threatened (PDF - 260.84 kB)