Texas Fauna Project

Black-tailed Prairie Dog

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Lynda Watson, the owner and operator of P.M.S. Recycled Vermin, based in Lubbock, has caught, quarantined and relocated more than 200,000 prairie dogs over the past 40 years. Here she points out how proposed prairie dog listings under the Endangered Species Act can provoke landowners to kill the prairie dogs, to avoid possible future limits on land use.