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Dedicated to the Preservation of Prairie Dogs and their Habitat

No freedom to ruin public lands

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

Wild mustangs are an invasive species in the American West. But, then, so are all the humans living here who are not of American Indian descent.

The wild lands in Utah and other Western states where wild horses now roam are fragile and arid — places easily endangered by encroaching, rapidly multiplying horses numbering in the thousands and tens of millions of people who are multiplying even faster and doing more to threaten the land.

Humans have all but obliterated many of the native plant and animal species, including wolves, buffalo, beaver, otters, sage grouse, tortoises, prairie dogs and myriad varieties of plants and even fish.

Running cattle on fragile public land causes more harm than wild horses do, but the humans who have taken over this part of the globe do not want to share scarce feed with animals they cannot work, sell or butcher.

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Protect or curb?

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

The prairie dog, reviled by landowners and rejected in most parts for potential protection as a AR-140429682threatened or endangered species, nevertheless has the sympathy of at least one public body.

Starting in 2007, the Colorado Department of Transportation developed a policy which, if not beating the drum for the rodent, at least aims to maintain a viable population of the critters.

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Unintentional cruelty: Are prairie dog relocations worth their mortality?

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

Spring marks the annual beginning of an increasingly popular non-lethal method of removing 104351404-gunnisons-prairieunwanted prairie dogs: Relocation of entire segments to more suitable and protected habitat.

But the job isn’t for sissies or the faint of heart, because there is a huge amount of work and preparation involved, with a variety of associated challenges, including potentially fatal consequences for a number of prairie dogs—sometimes even if the job is done by experts.

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Boot Hill gives its original residents the boot!

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

Why did the prairie dog cross the road? Possibly to get to Boot Hill Ranch Estates.

At the April 9 meeting of the Custer County Commission, Les McClanahan, a Boot Hill resident, came before the commission to express his and his neighbors’ uneasiness with a prairie dog town that has grown on land south of Hwy. 16 across from Boot Hill. The land is sandwiched between American Presidents Resort and Granite Heights Drive. McClanahan wondered if the county had any authority to eliminate prairie dogs on private land.

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Prairie Dog Daze

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

Cute is not a reason to go on living in the grander evolutionary scheme of things, but it must count for 40th-Horiz.wideasomething. People love prairie dogs, even if they are next thing to a rat.

Michael Burns never expected to be walking around the plaza dressed in a big, fuzzy, buff-colored costume on the Saturday after Earth Day, hugging children and carrying a cardboard placard that said “Prairie dog family values.” The 36-year-old self-employed salesman who moved to Santa Fe from Portland, Ore. about four years ago, said he never thought much about prairie dogs until recently. 

Read More:  Daze

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Wildlife major helps with research on endangered prairie dogs

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

Getting up before dawn never appealed to Penn State Elyse McMahon headersenior Elyse McMahon, but last summer it was exactly what she wanted to be doing. From June to August, her days began early with trapping and handling endangered Utah prairie dogs for data collection.

The wildlife and fisheries science major headed west to be part of a study to determine if a new type of bait containing a trial vaccine could help eliminate the sylvatic plague in prairie dogs. Students collected data that U.S. Geological Survey employees analyzed.

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Group Files Suit To Protect Prairie Dog

May 6, 2014 by Ed Urbanski

WildEarth Guardians filed suit this week challenging the U.S. Fish and tallbtprairiedogWildlife Service’s (Service) refusal to protect the Gunnison’s prairie dog under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service denied the species protection despite a documented 95 percent decline since the early 1900s and numerous serious ongoing threats.

 

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Recent News

What do prairie dogs eat?

January 24, 2023 By PDP

The vast majority of this creature’s diet consists of plants, making them herbivores. They eat mostly grasses, shrubs, roots, and seeds. Though the different species don’t specialize on a specific type of plant, they do each have different preferences. https://defenders.org/wildlife/prairie-dog Black-tailed prairie dogs mainly consume grasses, sedges, forbs (flowering plants), roots and seeds, though they […]

What do prairie dogs eat?

January 24, 2023 By PDP

Prairie dogs are herbivorous (i.e., they eat plants such as grasses and forbs [grass-like flowering plants]). Prairie dogs also occasionally insects that they find above ground. They do not drink because they get all of the water they need from the plants. A review of studies on prairie dog food habits shows variable results. Prairie […]

What do prairie dogs eat?

January 24, 2023 By PDP

When it comes to diet, the prairie dog seems to be on the veg side of things. It practically has no business with flesh as one would assume. It believes in green food; perhaps because it offers more nutrients and is more readily available in its natural environment. Prairie dogs feed on grass, plants, root, […]

Links

  • Albuquerque Pet Memorial Service
  • Animal Protection New Mexico
  • Animal Protection Voters
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  • Great Plains Restoration Council
  • Midwest Prairie Dog Shelter
  • New Mexico House Rabbit Society
  • New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
  • Pathways: Wildlife Corridors of NM
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  • Southwest Veterinary Medical Center
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