Good job!!!! Vote if you have not. Pass it on!!! PETITION:What is the best way to deal with prairie dogs in community parks?
Leave them alone 70% 641 votes Relocate them 2% 27 votes Build dog parks to scare them 1% 12 votes Build fences 1% 16 votes Kill them 23% 211 votes 907 total votes <http://www.dailycamera.com/polls/2007/jan/pdogsparks/results/> on 1/31/07 2:31 AM, Judy Reed at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AnimalVoicesAlert Note: See below article about dog park to scare away prairie dogs. Lovely. Please kick the "kill them" crowd to the curb. Vote Now! PETITION:What is the best way to deal with prairie dogs in community parks? <http://www.dailycamera.com/polls/2007/jan/pdogsparks/results/> *Leave them alone 42% 178 votes * Relocate them 4% 20 votes Build dog parks to scare them 2% 9 votes Build fences 3% 15 votes Kill them 46% 195 votes 417 total votes LINK Source: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello All! Below is a poll the Daily Camera is running to see what is the best way to deal with prairie dogs in community parks. Right now, the 'kill them' option is winning with 46% and 'leave them alone' is behind with 40%. Please vote now and pass the link on. It takes less than a minute. Thanks! Lindsey Lindsey Sterling Krank, Director The Prairie Dog Coalition 2525 Arapahoe #E4-527 Boulder, CO 80302 (720) 938-0788 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.prairiedogcoalition.org. on 1/30/07 10:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Park goes to the dogs Officials hope canines will scare off prairie dogs By Ryan Morgan <http://dailycamera.com/staff/ryan-morgan/> (Contact <http://dailycamera.com/staff/ryan-morgan/contact/> ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monday, January 29, 2007 Jack Watson, For the Camera Cecily Wilson, of Boulder, and her chocolate Lab puppy, Millie, take a walk along North Boulder Community Park Friday afternoon amid a growing prairie dog population. Boulder Parks and Recreation officials are hoping Fluffy, Fido and Rex can help keep prairie dogs from burrowing into Foothills Community Park. But the proposal to temporarily expand a dog park at the site has met with protests from the park's neighbors, who say the prairie dogs should just be removed. Foothills' prairie dog problem began two years ago, when workers contracted by the Parks and Recreation Department started digging a trench to accommodate a quarter-mile-long barrier. Park administrators worried that prairie dogs on adjacent Open Space and Mountain Parks property would burrow onto the fields of the $12 million park and ruin them. Construction on the fence halted after neighbors complained it would be ugly and wouldn't stop prairie dogs. The rodents, meanwhile, did make their way into the park. The situation prompted the city to study a new approach to dealing with prairie dogs. The City Council in August approved an Urban Wildlife Management Plan that identifies several areas across the city in which it makes more sense to remove prairie dogs probably by killing them rather than using often-ineffective barriers. Foothills Community Park was one of the areas the plan slated for the "near-term removal" of prairie dogs. 't apply to Boulder's Open Space and Mountain Parks properties, said Alice Guthrie, the parks department's planning superintendent. The open space department won't finish its own prairie dog management plan for another year. Removing prairie dogs from the park doesn't make sense when more of the animals live just a few yards away on adjacent open space, Guthrie said. "Until (the open space plan) is complete and they really have worked out within their system what they can do, we don't think it's in our best interest just to remove the prairie dogs on the park side because they're just going to come back in," Guthrie said. Guthrie said her department wants to spend $72,500 to extend the existing dog park south. It would be bound by a chain-link fence, which would do little to keep prairie dogs from burrowing into the park. That's the dogs' job. Guthrie said the hope is that lots of canines running around will deter prairie dogs from coming in. "We've seen areas where we do have dog parks and we have prairie dogs, and the prairie dogs don't come into the dog parks," she said. The parks department could be addressing the prairie dog problem while also "adding an amenity" to Foothills Community Park, Guthrie said. India Wood, one of the park's neighbors, doesn't see it that way. She said the plan doesn't make sense, especially because city officials already said they'd remove the animals. "It just seems to me that they're spending so much money on the prairie dogs there that they could instead be spending on building the park that's supposed to be there," she said. She said the proposal is just an attempt to build a fence by another name. "It's just a smoke-screen," she said. "Just call it a fence. Don't call it a dog park." Contact Camera Staff Writer Ryan Morgan at (303) 473-1333 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> You are invited to read past articles and alerts, subscribe, or unsubscribe or email with subject "subscribe." BushWatchersNews: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=bushwatchernews&start=0&scoring=d AnimalVoicesAlerts:http://groups-beta.google.com/group/AnimalVoicesAlerts AnimalVoicesNews: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/AnimalVoicesNews
