DENVER (CN) — A federal judge on Monday dismissed an environmentalist group’s third lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeking to block Colorado prairie dog kills.
“Here, the third time is not a charm,” wrote U.S. Judge Regina Rodriguez in a 16-page order.
Prairie Protection Colorado, a nonprofit based in Sedalia, Colorado, sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in January 2024, four years after the city of Castle Rock and Colorado Springs Utilities signed a service contract with the federal government to manage prairie dogs. Read More at: Prairie Protection