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| The Prairie Dog
Relocation Project of Mesa County is comprised of a small fleet of
volunteers in a Sierra Club task force to put an end to the unnecessary
and extraordinarily cruel poisoning, shooting, and building on top of
communities of endangered prairie dogs (PDs). We spend our own time, gas
money, and often buy our own live traps in order to use to the fullest
extent we can our difficult-to-come-by PD relocation permit. When you get
to know PDs you'll understand why this project is so important. In our community, as in most of |
We currently relocate PDs to a remote 900-plus acres provided by the BLM that does not have grazing rights as ranchers are allowed to kill PDs year-round. Relocations are done in burrows at the edges of PD communities which have grown from prior relocations. |
the very few
places PDs inhabit, mythology prevails... PDs
carry plaque, eat our graze and ruin grazing land, multiply like rabbits,
break our animals' legs with their burrows... Mythology, pure and simple.
So, while we hustle to keep PDs from a sure extinction at the hands of an
unthinking, uneducated, uncaring sector of mankind, we also work to dispel
these myths and educate our communities on how like humans PDs really are,
and how all prairie ecosystems benefit from them. Late breaking news! Click here... |
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Prairie Dog Relocation Project of Mesa County, 970-242-4863, 2890 Seeley Rd., Grand Junction, CO 81503, eric@projectprairiedog.com Web site design: LC Marketing & Design Co., Photography by Tony Contreras
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