Colorado community works to protect prairie dogs as HOA ... - CBS News
22 hours ago · Biologists estimate prairie dogs have lost 98% of their habitat to development. Prairie dogs serve as a keystone species but have little special protection under state law. According to Colorado ...
Prairie Dog Colony Sparks Longmont HOA Feud - Denver Westword
2 days ago · Minor prairie dog permits, which allow extermination, are available for properties or prairie dog territories less than 1.5 acres in size or if the site has urban development — defined as ...
Weekly Why: Why do Coloradans care so much about prairie dogs?
6 days ago · Prairie dogs — seen by some as a cute, playful slice of local wildlife, and by others as pests — have become martyrs in the ongoing battle between urbanization and conservation.
Petition fights to save prairie dog colony in Longmont - 9news.com
5 days ago · Jaime Fraina was one of the volunteers who helped Longmont relocate at least 600 prairie dogs from the Dry Creek Community Park to Pueblo. The city shares online that they're making way for a new ...
Colorado advocates urge protection of prairie dogs amid ... - CBS News
Sep 27, 2024 · If landowners choose to exterminate prairie dogs, Prairie Protection Colorado urges they do so humanely and avoid using poisons that could have a ripple effect throughout the ecosystem.
Prairie dogs are in trouble as the climate warms
Jan 13, 2025 · In the Great Plains, black-tailed prairie dogs scamper in the grass and dig massive burrows where they live together in colonies. Lindsey Sterling Krank of the Humane Society of the United States says prairie dogs are cute – and important to the ecosystem. Many other species depend on them as prey or even live in their burrows.
Prairie dogs from vacant lot spill over into Colorado ... - CBS News
Aug 21, 2024 · Neighbors in a Parker community say it was about five years ago when the prairie dogs appear to have been pushed by development elsewhere to a vacant lot near their homes.
Why the West needs prairie dogs - High Country News
Jan 1, 2025 · Prairie dogs emerge from their burrow in a colony on American Prairie in Montana. Prairie dogs, once one of the most abundant animals on the prairie, now occupy 2% of their historic range. Credit ...
Endangered black-footed ferret getting new chance in Arizona
Sep 23, 2024 · Prairie dogs make up roughly 90% of a black-footed ferret’s diet and provide their only source of shelter. With the greatest canine length-to-skull size ratio of any mammal (according to FWS ...
Fort Collins prairie dog euthanasia raises question of alternatives
Dec 5, 2022 · After two prairie dog colonies were euthanized recently, citizens stepped up to protest the killings and support relocation. But it's not that easy.
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