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Wednesday, February 8, 2017
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Rotunda at the Roundhouse
411 State Capitol, Santa Fe, NM (map)
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This is a chance for the environmental community to demonstrate broad-based support to elected officials and the public for protecting our climate, clean air, clean water, and conservation of wildlife and public lands in New Mexico. We’ll have Lobby Training for people at 10:30am and 2pm. Meet at the podium in the Roundhouse. Participating groups: Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, Defenders of Wildlife, Animal Protection Voters of NM, Audubon NM, Project Coyote, Wildlife Conservation Advocacy Southwest, Southwest Environmental Center, Sierra Club Northern Group, Trapfree NM, Rio Grande Restoration, Conservation Voters New Mexico, Amigos Bravos, Friends of Bosque del Apache NWR, Center for Biological Diversity, Environment NM, Gila Conservation Coalition, Gila River Information Project, Lobos of the Southwest, Friends of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, The Santa Fe Raptor Center, The Wilderness Society, and Wild Earth Guardians
Lobby Day! Let your voice be heard!!!
Animal Protection Lobby Day 2017
Wed, Feb 22, 2017
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Thank you for caring about New Mexico’s animals and showing up to help us change laws that change their lives!
Passing stronger laws for animals takes ongoing dedication, planning, persistence, and plenty of voices from constituents like YOU! Join us for Animal Protection Lobby Day, and help make humane the new normal in 2017.
Our 2017 legislative priorities include banning traps and poisons on public lands and ending wildlife killing contests. We will continue to be vigilant in fighting against bills that are bad for animals, and supporting other pro-animal legislation.
This is a free event! Lunch and Refreshments provided!
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
9:00 AM- Registration & Refreshments (PERA Building)
10:00 AM- Citizen Lobbyist Training (PERA Building, Apodaca Hall)
11:30 AM- Lunch and Breakouts / Letter Writing Campaign (PERA Building)
1:00 PM- Group Photo on steps of PERA Building
1:30 PM- Deliver Letters to Your Legislators (Roundhouse)
2:30 PM- Press Conference / Guest Speakers (Roundhouse / Rotunda)
4:00 PM- Reception at APNM Santa Fe Office, 1111 Paseo de Peralta
Help us cover the cost of lunch for you or a community member. Suggested donation $15.00
Howling Mad! Let your voice be heard
We’re Howling Mad!
Protest at the Santa Fe Capitol
Wednesday, Feb 8th, 1pm
490 Old Santa Fe Trail
Check our Facebook event page for updates and carpool information
Join us at the Roundhouse to tell Governor Martinez: “We’re Howling Mad!” With just six breeding pairs at last count and inbreeding that is causing wolf moms to have fewer pups, New Mexico’s and Arizona’s endangered Mexican gray wolves need genetically-diverse wolves to be released from captivity before it’s too late.
But Governor Martinez has cynically blocked releases. Will our children be able to know the lobo in the wild, or will it be driven to extinction?
We need your support to tell Governor Martinez to listen to the scientists and allow more Mexican Wolves in New Mexico.
FIRST PRAIRIE DOG OF 2017 SIGHTED
An advocate called this morning (1/28) and reported seeing the first prairie dog emerge from hibernation at the NW Corner of Tramway and Lomas (Prairie Hills). This is a bit disturbing as the temperature this morning was 20F possibly warming to 40F later in the day. It is just TOO early. However, we do know that our gunnies can wake up for a snack and then go back into torpor if the weather is cold. We HOPE that’s the case, otherwise it will be a long spring season for our rescue crew. If any of our caregivers are of the mind to visit the lot, could you perhaps drop some carrots or grain down a few of the burrows? Also if you check the areas where you provide supplemental food for PD activity it would be appreciated. Thanks!
PS: The prairie dog pictured is a black tailed prairie dog in Colorado.
Electronic Mailings
Greetings! By now I hope you have received your notification of the annual meeting at 1:00 PM on 5 February 2017, at the James Joseph Memorial Police Substation, 12,700 Montgomery Blvd. NE, and have RSVP’d!!!!!!
One of the items that will be discussed is electronic mailings. At this moment C Rex is updating the email data base, and you will soon get a cheery email from him asking you a number of questions.
To facilitate things, if you are interested in continuing to receive news of our activities, and solicitations for help, could you please email prairiedogpals@comcast.net or prairiedogpals@prairiedogpals.org and indicate your interest. For the moment it would be ” I’ll attend the annual meeting” or “I want to volunteer as a 1) rescuer, 2) outreach, 3) steward, 4) other (specify)”, but that may expand. Well why not, 5) keep me informed.
So, don’t be shy, C Rex is waiting to hear from you!
No, C Rex is “praying” to hear from you!
Animal Protection Lobby Day 2017
Passing stronger laws for animals takes ongoing dedication, planning, persistence, and plenty of voices from constituents like YOU! Join us for Animal Protection Lobby Day, and help make humane the new normal in 2017.
Our 2017 legislative priorities include banning traps and poisons on public lands and ending wildlife killing contests. We will continue to be vigilant in fighting against bills that are bad for animals, and supporting other pro-animal legislation.
This is a free event! Lunch and Refreshments provided!
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
9:00 AM- Registration & Refreshments (PERA Building)
10:00 AM- Citizen Lobbyist Training (PERA Building, Apodaca Hall)
11:30 AM- Lunch and Breakouts / Letter Writing Campaign (PERA Building)
1:00 PM- Group Photo on steps of PERA Building
1:30 PM- Deliver Letters to Your Legislators (Roundhouse)
2:30 PM- Press Conference / Guest Speakers (Roundhouse / Rotunda)
4:00 PM- Reception at APNM Santa Fe Office, 1111 Paseo de Peralta
Help us cover the cost of lunch for you or a community member. Suggested donation $15.00
Read more at: Lobby Day
Event Location
PERA Building1120 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501
Directions
We will begin our day at the P.E.R.A building, then make our way to the Roundhouse, finishing with a reception at the APV Santa Fe office.
For Volunteers
Prairie Dog Volunteers need to have all of these documents in hand to do their work. Just click on each link to download, save, and print each of them!
Help Us Help Them
Prairie Dog Pals Wish List
Funding and in-kind resources support habitat restoration, relocation, education, outreach, as well as Conservation easements on state, tribal, and private land for prairie dogs to be released into current or ancestral ranges within New Mexico.
- Financial bequests
- 10 pound bags of carrots*
- 50 pound bags of sunflower seeds*
- 50 pound bags of NOMO*
- Bales of Timothy Hay*
- Grants
- Backhoe and trailer
- Funding
- Datamars micro chips
- Livestock tanks
- Contributions
- Wire cutters and snips
- Pliers
- Money
- Electric drill and bits
- Construction flags
- Deposits into the Prairie Dog Pals account
- 25 Gallon heavy gauge nursery pots
- Capital
- 4 Inch diameter corrugated tubing
- 100 ft hoses (3/4″)
- Financiers, backers, sponsors, patrons
- Gasoline
- Kevlar gloves
- Work gloves
- Checks
- Towels
- Hydrant hose
- U.S. currency
- Hose fittings
- Hose nozzles
- Cash
- Medium size heavy gauge dog carriers
- 3/4 Ton Suburban to tow tanker
- New Tires
- Fiberglass repair kits
- Pocket money
- Sunlight dish soap (non-toxic and bio-degradable) by the case!
- Saline solution
- Loose change from the car seats
- Marking pens / labeling tape for kennels
- Knee pads or gardening mats
- Shovels/ picks
- Assets
- 10 lb. bags of Blue Gramma, Black gramma, and Burrow grass seed
- Food coloring
- Loose change from the sofa
- Writable CDs
- Photocopying credits or coupons
- Mobile phone minutes or calling cards
- 10,000 acres of short to medium grass prairie in New Mexico suitable for prairie dog relocation
* Food items are needed during prairie dog season from about March through September.
Prairie Dog Pals Insert
You can download this simple insert to copy and distribute to educate those who need information about Prairie Dog Pals. Thank you! Click here!
Prairie Dog Pals Brochure
Our brochure can be downloaded as a pdf and handed out to anyone who would like some information about prairie dogs in Albuquerque and how we help them! Just click here!
Habitat Improvement
Many areas where prairie dogs live need habitat improvement as the natural vegetation has been disturbed or destroyed. Prairie dogs need grasses and weeds to eat. Cactus is a drought source of food and moisture for them. Where areas have been made barren due to plowing and bulldozing, cactus from other areas can be transplanted. It is one of the few plants that will survive transplanting without water. FYI, It is illegal to take cacti from wild areas.
Regenerating native grasses and vegetation takes years, especially with little rainfall and no supplemental water supply. Once an area is disturbed or over populated it is very difficult to restore the grasses because the prairie dogs will eat any new growth.
How To Transplant Cacti
Prickly pear and broadleaf can be planted by placing them in shallow troughs. The supplies you will need are tongs, clippers, gloves and containers to hold the pads – plastic bags are not advisable because the needles can poke through the plastic. A hedge clipper is the best tool for cutting the pads and tongs are best for picking them up. The cacti can be cut into medium sized sections of 3 to 6 pads. There is no need to dig up the roots. The needles come off easily, even in a strong wind, so take care in handling the pads. They can be kept in a shady area for a day until ready for transplanting.
Transplant 3 to 6 pads so that the cut edge of at least one pad can be buried in a shallow trough. Cacti are hardy – a pad can fall off a plant and laying flat on the ground will put out roots and start a new plant.
The prairie dogs may eat the cactus you are planting if they do not have enough food. Try to provide enough food, carrots, greens, alfalfa pellets, fresh cut grass clippings, etc. so that they will not eat the cacti.
Compatible Landscape Design Surrounding Prairie Dog Colonies
Do not plant lawn grasses near by as they will be drawn to it. If an area already has lawn grasses you can let it grow naturally, reduce the watering and add decorative rocks, forbs, native grasses and pines and you will have a xeriscape compatible with prairie dogs. If you have trees that are enticing to prairie dogs, you might want to consider getting rid of them by taking the help of certain Tree Removal services. It can be hard to part with a tree you’ve cared for and grown for many years, but it is an inevitable part of landscaping. And on the upside, a new tree can take their place. For example, pine trees can be planted because the prairie dogs will not normally eat them unless they have no other food. Well, a landscaping project might require lot of experience and manpower so trying to accomplish it singlehandedly could be futile. You can however contact landscaping firms (like Milestone Dubai – Landscaping, Pools, Interiors, or the ones like them in the vicinity) and let them know about your requirements which could help them renovate the area according to you.
Habitat improvement is a hard but satisfying work. It should be done in areas where the prairie dogs will be allowed to stay. In Albuquerque we currently have several areas on parkland where prairie dogs can live in their family groups with the support and assistance of caring people.
See this article to find out about native prairie forbs and this one about native grasses which you can use for landscaping!