Prairie Dogs: A Threatened Species or Public Health Nuisance?
By Kenneth Barbalace
[Wednesday, March 21, 2007]
In the Midwest of the United States the matter of whether prairie dogs are a threatened species or an over populated public health nuisance that causes severe economic damage has been raging for decades.
This article is the first in a series of articles that we will publish on EnvironmentalChemistry.com on the subject of Prairie dogs over the coming month or so. On a personal note, if you have never seen a prairie dog in person you are truly missing something, they are adorable creatures and fun to watch in their natural habitat (but please remember, they are wild animals, and don't make appropriate pets).
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This article is the first in a series of articles that we will publish on EnvironmentalChemistry.com on the subject of Prairie dogs over the coming month or so. On a personal note, if you have never seen a prairie dog in person you are truly missing something, they are adorable creatures and fun to watch in their natural habitat (but please remember, they are wild animals, and don't make appropriate pets).
Read entire article: Prairie Dogs: A Threatened Species or Public Health Nuisance?
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The argument that prairie dogs are hazardous to cattle is not justified. Once upon a time millions of prairie dogs coexisted with millions of bison. Somehow the bison managed to flourish on the prairie without breaking legs and starving to death. Crazy right?
Instead of figuring out how to control the prairie dog population, why don't we try to figure out how to control the human population and our tendency to wipe out certain species because they happen to be occupying a piece of land that we'd like to build another Wal-Mart on.
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