prairie dogs
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Santa Fe Airport’s removal of prairie dogs draws fire
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Santa Fe Municipal Airport officials’ removal of prairie dogs is drawing scrutiny from some wildlife advocates. That’s because the filling of prairie dog holes also is hurting the burrowing owl population. Airport manager Cameron Humphres says prairie dogs attract birds of prey like burrowing owls, and both cause problems at the airport. Humphres says planes…
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Landowner offers relocation site for Boulder prairie dogs
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An unnamed Colorado landowner has offered to rescue a prairie dog colony threated by impending construction. The Daily Camera reports that the property owner offered land about 8 miles west of Boulder, where developer Bruce Dierking wants to build 200 middle-income apartments at the Colorado National Guard Armory site. Roughly 50 to 100 prairie dogs live there. Boulder officials…
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Offbeat bills 2016: Prairie dogs, dead bodies, hunter pink, Ms. Attorney General
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Colorado lawmakers have submitted more than 305 bills so far in the legislative session. A few of them are sure to receive attention, not for being controversial or partisan or headline grabbing, but for seeming so… odd. Here’s a short list of some of those unusual bills: Pets and pests, cadaver tamperers, madams attorney general and dead-shot pink: HB-10:…
