The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is ramping up its surveys of wildlife in the state’s most remote reaches, including in ...

The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine meadows in the mountains ...

Continued warming will only push this critter closer to extinction. Alpine zones suitable for pika cover less than 5 percent of the planet’s surface. This habitat is basically an island in the sky.

The whereabouts of the pint-sized pika, a mammalian indicator species that is losing its alpine habitat to climate change, have been mapped for the first time in Wyoming’s reaches of the Rocky ...

HABITAT: American pikas primarily live in rocky talus slopes near alpine meadows, but are sometimes found at rocky areas along streams and in lava fields adjacent to appropriate vegetation. RANGE: The ...