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Wildlife advocacy organizations host multi-city premiere screenings of new documentary film, seeking to end coyote killing contests in New Mexico

January 8, 2017 by PDP

 

 

 

 

Santa Fe, N.M. – In advance of the 2017 New Mexico legislative session, a coalition of non-profit wildlife advocacy organizations are hosting the United States premiere of a new documentary film to raise awareness, debunk myths and inspire action to end the cruel and senseless slaughter of wildlife in killing contests. By showing the film in several locations across the state, opponents of wildlife killing contests hope to grow active support among New Mexico citizens for impending legislation to end the barbaric death games targeting coyotes.

Read more at:  Coyote

Conservation, News Tagged: behavior, Conservation, ecology

Do prairie dogs benefit cattle grazing?

January 4, 2017 by PDP

Ranchers have known prairie dogs can reduce rangeland forage by as much as half, but prairie dogs may significantly increase the quality of forage that regrows, according to research by a University of Wyoming master’s degree student.

Read More at:  Forage

Conservation, Information about Prairie Dogs, News Tagged: behavior, Conservation, ecology, keystone species

Prairie dogs are a nuisance for most farmers and ranchers

December 29, 2016 by PDP

This article is obviously biased against prairie dogs, but does provide an insight into the mindset of farmers and ranchers.  There are numerous studies documenting that prairie dogs do not compete with cattle for forage as there are numerous studies documenting the opposite.  It is just a matter of who performed the study.  I think the answer to this is that prairie dogs become an issue for farmers and ranchers AFTER farmers and ranchers have turned PRAIRIE into farms and ranches.  Read the article at:Farms and Ranches

Conservation, Information about Prairie Dogs, News, Wildlife Tagged: behavior, colonies, Conservation, ecology, Endangered Species Act, keystone species

Drought affecting prairie dog population

June 17, 2014 by PDP

 

 

June 14, 2014

 

By Vanessa Kahin
Staff writer
vkahin@cnjonline.com

 

Loathed, protested and even poisoned — Clovis’ prairie dogs appear to be dwindling, but it may have more to do with Mother Nature than anything humankind has perpetrated.

 

Local environmentalist Susan Hubby — who protested the Clovis City Commission’s decision to poison the prairie dogs at Ned Houk Park last year — said that drought may be the reason behind what she perceives to be fewer prairie dogs in the area.

 

“Many did not make it this season from the drought,” she said, adding that recent rains may help prairie dogs’ plant food source to grow.

Read More:  Drought

News Tagged: behavior, black-tailed prairie dogs, Conservation, ecology

Prairie dogs state their case

June 1, 2014 by PDP

No matter where you look on the grounds of the Plains Conservation Center, a black-tailed prairie dog will probably be looking back at you.dt.common.streams.StreamServer

 

Read more:  Pueblo Chieftain

News Tagged: behavior, black-tailed prairie dogs, colonies, Conservation, ecology, keystone species

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