But the ones here along the western edge of the Rocky Mountains aren't ordinary prairie dogs.
Now, a self-taught inventor is once again eyeing the vast shale deposits of the Rocky Mountains.
Canada followed in 1885, founding its first national park in the Rocky Mountains, now Banff National Park.
Annual weeklong ski reunions in the Rocky Mountains or the Alps can attract up to 40 alums.
Eventually, the continued rise of the Rocky Mountains kept the sea away from the continent's interior.
But that won't necessarily mean the same thing in the Rocky Mountains as it will in the Amazon.
Hidden 1, 000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world.
The Rocky Mountains are littered with ghost towns that were once thronged with men mining silver, lead or uranium.
The Republicans have a virtual lock on 20 states, predominantly in the South, the Plains and the Rocky Mountains.
It is believed that they were pushed into their present location seventy million years ago by the uplift of the Rocky Mountains.
The avalanche occurred on a spring weekend when many skiers and snowboarders took advantage of late season snowfall in the Rocky Mountains.
The federal government estimates that there's more than 1 trillion barrels of burnable fuel in the oil shale of the Rocky Mountains.
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San Antonio-based Pioneer Drilling is a contract driller, but does its business on land in Oklahoma and throughout Texas and the Rocky Mountains.
It created auroras over the Rocky Mountains so bright that the glow woke campers who began preparing breakfast because they thought it was morning.
Economically feasible power production sites are principally located west of the Rocky Mountains, and only California, Hawaii, Nevada and Utah currently have operating plants.
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It seemed that there was more attention paid to the Rocky Mountains and what Ben Bernake says when he gets there later this week.
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That contrasts with 10% on the East Coast, 21% in the Midwest, 17% on the West Coast and just 3.5% in the Rocky Mountains.
There are few visible signs of the financial crunch on campus, where the Rocky Mountains loom over the pink sandstone buildings and manicured lawns.
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Overlooked by a crenelated section of the Rocky Mountains known as the Ramparts, the scenery is spectacular, photogenic and remote (the nearest road is 18km away).
The company has also teamed up with ConocoPhillips and pipeline owner KinderMorgan on a separate project to bring natural gas from the Rocky Mountains to Ohio.
In June, 60 drivers took theirs through the Rocky Mountains, where they climbed and descended steep passes, suffering setbacks no more serious than the occasional overheated radiator.
But he lives like a king in his 9, 000-square-foot keep on the edge of the Rocky Mountains--one of hundreds of Americans who have bought or built a castle.
But these old-school rides offer more than a journey back in time: They can unlock some of the world's toughest-to-reach terrain, from the Rocky Mountains to Russia's vast countryside.
On that flight, 18 Colorado College students, on their way to an ultimate Frisbee tournament in San Diego, staged a Harlem shake as the plane soared over the Rocky Mountains.
For the next 120 days, we cycled an average of 100km a day through the deep sands of the Nubian Desert in Sudan, the rocky mountains of Ethiopia and the torrential rains of Tanzania.
The pass, at an elevation of 11, 990ft (3, 655m), is popular among back-country skiers and snowboarders, many of whom have been taking advantage of late season snowfall in the Rocky Mountains this weekend.
With no boundaries between park and hotel, guests can expect mountain sheep, coyotes, even the odd bear to range over the hotel's stunningly picturesque grounds at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
This disease, spread like bubonic plague by fleas on rats that have escaped from ships, has come east from California into Texas and has slowly been working its way north up the Rocky Mountains.
In the U.S., the capacity of pipelines exporting natural gas produced in the Rocky Mountains to markets in the Midwest, East Coast and West Coast rose more than 40% between 2001 and 2006.
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