Posted on 09/13/2008 7:38:42 AM PDT by george76
Cost of efforts could top $380,000.
Boulder officials have finalized plans to relocate hundreds of prairie dogs inhabiting four city-owned sites, and to euthanize hundreds more.
The plans call for spending as much as $388,400 on removing the rodents, capturing and euthanizing others, fumigating those left behind in their burrows and installing metal barriers so they don’t return.
According to the 19-page document on the issue, prepared by interim City Manager Stephanie Grainger, about 500 prairie dogs need to be relocated ...
“I’m not sure how we’ll end up doing it,” said Bev Johnson, a city planner familiar with the plans. “There’s just not enough available sites to receive prairie dogs.”
According to city documents, the Colorado Division of Wildlife has told the city the rodents living on the toxic tailings pond cap at Valmont Butte cannot be relocated and are not candidates for animal recovery programs.
Those prairie dogs have been particularly troublesome for the city, officials have said, because of concerns that the animals were close to breaching the protective caps at the site — or infected with plague.
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Gimme a 30-06 and I'll do it for half that.
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I’ll do it for a third - and be done in about 2 days, and still get significantly more than my annual salary.
There are plenty of people who would gladly do it for free.
Pretty fun, IIRC.
Ideally, if the town is in a ravine or lower than your stand, a .22 LR will suffice, if you can get inside 100 yds.
If you insist on hi-power long arms, and have to stand off 300 plus yds, the .223 ($160.00 / 500 round can for my last purchase) in bull barrel, 9-16 x 35 bullet drop comp scope, is the cheapest I've found for hours of pasture poodle plinking.
My favorite set up is to put my spinner, tripod shooting seat and support in the bed of a pickup and drive to within range. Gives you that "sahib' tiger safari and a B-17 gun turrent feeling. The AR-15 with a 20 rd clip in this will make 'em dance.
A dollar a head bounty on the prarie dogs should clear out most of them the first weekend.
Spending $375.00 each to get rid of them makes it sound like californians has taken over the government there.
They did....!!
Long time ago, too.
I have a 22-250 sighted in at 500yds - 4,000fps - now this would be fun!!! And I’d pay for my own gas/lodgings to go there ....
Through a spokesman, Richard Gere said, “No, don’t kill them. I have a better idea.”
Right - saw it on TV. Cute the way it works. Now to just deliver them to the appropriate parties .... :)
PETA, we need you. If Boulder kills ‘em, we’ll never find the killers.
Nah, George — you’re going to be spending waaaaay too much on ammo to feed that -06.
And let’s say you have some Lake City surplus ball left over — don’t be wasting it on PD’s, man.
Go get yourself a .17 HMR. I’m here to tell you, it is like a thunderbolt on rodents. Ammo is about $130 for 500 rounds, it is more accurate than you ever thought a rimfire could be, and it drops them like the hammer of Thor out to 200+ yards.
I’ve even killed coyotes and badgers with a .17HMR. Amazing round. You wouldn’t think that a little 17gr V-max pill could do what it does, but trust me — it is like lightening in a bottle. Awesome.
And in regards to the proximity of this, you don’t need to worry about ricochets with .17’s. That itty-bitty pill just blows apart on contact with, well, anything. Max 30 yard scatter after you hit the ground.
“Through a spokesman, Richard Gere said, “No, don’t kill them. I have a better idea.”
Took me a minute, now I can’t stop laughing.
THEY MUST BE DESTROYED!
Mark
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