re: Prairie Dog Hunt May 2017

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explain prairie dog hunting to me...obviously there are none down here but i'm an enthusiastic nutria exterminator. what do they do thats destructive?

are the populations managed at all or are they just that much of a verminous nuisance?

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population control, livestock steps into the holes and break legs, crop destruction too.

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Yup, that's pretty much got it.
As far as population control, the options taken are:
Poisoning (expensive and not w/o complications).
Hunting. In this, both hunters and landowners want #'s of pd's "controlled", but not eradicated. Landowners who lease their land for hunting can make a little extra $$.
Back in the 90's, an outfit was using a huge vacuum machine to "vacuum extract" pd's from their hole and sell them at pet stores. Haven't heard of that being done for a long time.
In some areas of CO the federal government is paying some landowners to re-introduce the ferret . The ferret is a predator of the pd.

If you like hunting nutria, you'd prolly like pd hunting.