Deadline Looming to Comment on New Prairie Dog Plan

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deadline to weigh in on a new federal plan that would loosen contentious endangered-species protections for Utah prairie dogs is looming.

The public-comment period closes Thursday on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan that would allow prairie dogs to be killed or removed from private property more often.

Comments can be submitted on regulations.gov or mailed to the fish and wildlife service headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia.

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