Well, let's see what they have come up with.............


Draft Available for Public Review
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is pleased to announce the release of the draft of the “Colorado Gunnison’s and White-tailed Prairie Dog Conservation Plan” for review by the public. We hope the numerous stakeholders and interested parties interested in prairie dog management will take this opportunity to review the plan.

Concern over the white-tailed and Gunnison’s prairie dogs is due predominantly to plague, and to a lesser extent, rangeland changes, historic poisoning campaigns, conversion of lands to agriculture, urban development, and recreational shooting.

The purpose of the State Conservation Plan is to:

1. Promote conservation of both species and their habitats.
2. Identify specific research needs.
3. Examine existing regulatory mechanisms and their ability to maintain viable populations.
4. Reduce the risk of factors negatively impacting populations.
5. Increase stakeholder participation in prairie dog conservation efforts.

The review and comment period for this draft ends November 3, 2008. Please provide comments to Amy Seglund, Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW), 2300 S. Townsend Ave., Montrose, CO 81401 or Amy.Seglund@state.co.us. Comments in an electronic format are preferred. Please make your comments as specific as possible, provide suggested rewording where feasible, and identify the topic and page number for the area of the plan pertaining to your comments.

Thank you in advance for your time in reviewing this important draft plan and providing your valued comments!

Here's a link to the site so you can review the full draft for yourselves.

CDOW link

If they want to "conserve them" put the ones in the city limits "off limits"....

There were plenty in and around Denver, etc.

Here we go again. Same song, different singer. I knew this was coming.

Well we all know what I'll be doing between now and the 3rd of November.



Hey Tom, I know you are out there, call me so that we can get it together.

Oh no, not again!

I quickly scanned the suggestions for preserving WTPD and they seemed to be positive towards shooting Prairie Dogs as a recreational practice that would continue. They did however suggest that if numbers fell it might be halted in specific areas. I was actually surprize to see that shooting was going to be allowed given the location (Colorado).

they are rats you cant get rid of them if you wanted , but i hope we never run out too!!!

Do the Wild Earth Guardian/Earthfirst!/DU School of Law kooks have anything to do with this stuff this time around?

Haven't had time to study the draft, but the plan may not be all bad. My paranoia prevents me from going into detail in the open, but it may not be all bad.

I have my own little plan for conserving them. Every time I miss one .....he's conserved.

If you read the plan it gets into how they count them and confirm the counts. Trust me it gets into a math beyond your wildest dreams. Considering that a huge majority of pds die from the plague it would appear, at least from the outside looking in, to be a waste of resources for rats with short tails.

It said that if numbers drop in certain areas that PD shooting would be halted and we all know that more than likely never allowed again

this is a ploy to get it written into law that they can halt certain activities when "their" numbers drop the DOW they will fix the numbers to make it look like they need to do something and then when it's halted it's a none issue and WE LOSE

The Earth Guardians have an ear in the commission he was silent at the last meeting in GJ when they were staring at 50-60 pizzed off shooters. It's just about time for them to have another meeting in Denver were the anti hunters on the commission will feel safe and will more than likely try to get this written into law

This is exactly how the sage grouse BS started, first it was a gentleman's agreement then it turned a gestapo ran ban of anything that would or could disturb those damm nasty tasting praire chickens.

Does the "ear" have a last name that is similar to a well known beverage?

It is interesting to note that the draft does not include any studies regarding the black-tailed PD's, which is the predominant species that most of us shoot. I think we as hunters should be extra careful and consider any management plan set in place for the lesser species groundwork for things to come on the blacktails. Good or bad.

Might want to read this
http://wildlife.state.co.us/NR/rdonlyres...APrairieMOU.pdf