PRAIRIE DOGS ARE NOT OVERPOPULATING.

Marsh, R.E. 1984. "Ground Squirrels, Prairie Dogs, Marmots as Pests on Rangeland." Proceedings of the Conference for Organization and Practice of Vertebrate Pest Control. ICI Plant Protection Division, Fernherst, UK.

Miller, Brian, Gerardo Ceballos, and Richard P. Reading. 1994. "The Prairie Dog and Biotic Diversity." Conservation Biology 8(3):677-81.

PRAIRIE DOGS DO NOT BREED LIKE CRAZY.

The Nature Conservancy. 1995 "Element Stewardship Abstract for Cynomys Ludovicianus (black-tailed prairie dog)."

Hoogland, John. 1995. The Black-tailed Prairie Dog: Social Life of a Burrowing Mammal. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Hoogland, John. 1985. "Infanticide in Prairie Dogs: Lactating Females Kill Offspring of Close Kin." Science 230: 1037-40.

PRAIRIE DOGS DO NOT CARRY PLAGUE.

Data obtained from the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention and Colorado Department of Health.

COLORADO CITIZENS WANT TO PROTECT PRAIRIE DOGS AND OTHER WILDLIFE.

The Cities of Boulder and Fort Collins, Colorado have both adopted progressive prairie dog management plans thanks to participation by citizen prairie dog advocates.

A moratorium on prairie dog poisoning has been issued by the city of Superior.

New land use regulations proposed by Boulder County will help minimize disturbance to prairie dog habitat

Recently the Mayor of Louisville, Tom Davidson, intervened to stop a real estate developer from poisoning a colony of prairie dogs

Mobilized citizens fought a plan by the City of Lakewood Open Space to poison prairie dogs on open space; they successfully gained a legal injunction against prairie dog poisoning on and encouraged the City Council to convene a roundtable to develop a non-lethal prairie dog management plan.

Citizen groups are trying to stop the City of Arvada from removing prairie dogs off of open space property.

In 1992, Colorado residents voted favorably on a citizens initiative to stop Spring bear hunting.

In 1996, the state citizens joined together again to prohibit the use of leg hold traps state-wide.

In 1997, a coalition of citizen groups successfully pushed the Colorado Division of Wildlife to restrict wildlife contest killing.

A recent survey by Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO) found that over 70% of Colorado residents survey want GOCO funds to go to wildlife protection programs.