Private non-profits that work in this area are excellent in sharing expert information with the public. A campaign to educate the public and provide a platform for volunteers or employees or both can remove the Prairie Dogs to protected land.
This is not a simple solution to greed and hate, but, it is a good solution that can lead to protections of species of all kinds. Groups can even partner with US Fish and Wildlife to bring about an understanding of their expertise and their abilities to respond to carrying out relocation.
"The timescale of climate change and the amount of climate change we're talking about means that we're going to have to move quickly from science to practice," she added.
Above are words of wisdom by Jessica Hellmann, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. She is stating that while science recorded information to benefit Earth and it's species; the PRACTICE is now changing from knowledge based science to APPLIED knowledge initiatives for protections of life on Earth.
The Climate Crisis is profoundly destroying ecosystems globally, including the USA. Australia is seeing a collapse of it's fisheries. Currently, Green Sea Turtle populations are 90% female. Why? Because the oceans got hot. These are the same oceans that saw the death of coral reefs. Temperature dictates embryo development when incubating. It is a defense mechanism of the species in that more Green Sea Turtle eggs will be laid with such high rates of female turtles.
What concerns scientists about this is the lack of variety of genetic male partners. Eventually, with hotter oceans we could see the end of ocean and fresh water turtles. They are a key species in the food web, both, as a predator and the hunted.
The Climate Crisis is real and it is happening now. Scientists are doing their level best to stem the tide so to speak, but, the task is enormous.
The point is transporting individual members of a species to safe land areas is a reasonable method to prevent genetic variability deterioration leading to extinction. There is every reason to have groups cooperate with USFW for the best outcomes possible. The Prairie Dog is a good example to that end. They are not game animals and it is completely ridiculous to kill them when they can be relocated.
January 9, 2018
By AP
Salt Lake City — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined (click here) to hear an appeal from residents of a small Utah city challenging endangered-species protections for prairie dogs, but the plaintiffs say their case alleging that their community has been overrun by the animals has made a mark as the Trump administration moves to loosen the contested rules.
The lawsuit was a key driver of the new federal plan that would make it easier to remove or kill prairie dogs, lawyers for the residents of the southwestern city of Cedar City said Monday.
Attorney Jonathan Wood said his clients were disappointed the Supreme Court declined to hear the case on Monday, but heartened by the new plan from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allowing prairie dogs to be killed or removed from private property to public land more frequently.
“That is solely due to the lawsuit and is a far better result for prairie dogs than the decades of conflict generated under heavy-handed federal regulation,” Wood said in an email.
Animal activists, though, say the administration’s proposed rollback of protections for the threatened Utah prairie dogs would be a death warrant for animals when they’re found on private land. They’re considered key to the ecosystem because their burrows turn up the soil and can be used as homes by other animals. They’re also an important food source for predators....
