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Explosives a go for prairie dogs
Denver Post ^
| 09/08/2006
| Jeremy P. Meyer
Posted on 09/08/2006 7:35:41 AM PDT by Dan Evans
Explosive devices can be used to kill prairie dogs, the Colorado Wildlife Commission decided Thursday - giving farmers one more tool to get rid of the burrowing animals.
"I'm tickled pink," said Matt Fickes, a Sterling farmer who has sought to use the devices. "I've got prairie dogs so thick I can't see straight.
"Ever see that Star Trek episode, 'The Trouble With Tribbles'? It's like that," he said. "They are born pregnant."
Landowners have been allowed to shoot, vacuum, poison and drown prairie dogs - but not blow them up.
Now they'll be permitted to use hand-held devices, such as the Rodenator and Varmitgetter, that ignite explosive gases to collapse the burrows.
"This idea was set up to give people another alternative," said Joe Lewandowski, state Division of Wildlife spokesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: bloweduprealgood; carlspackler; gopher; greasy; grimy; guts; prairiedogs; varmints
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:35:41 AM PDT
by
Dan Evans
To: Dan Evans
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:36:44 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(If at first you don't succeed, squeeze, squeeze again.)
To: Dan Evans
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:37:04 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(Bullsh## doesn't get bridges built.)
To: Dan Evans
"I'm losing the battle," Fickes said. "The prairie dog is a rat with a shovel. I would rather blow them up than poison them."
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:37:16 AM PDT
by
Dan Evans
To: Dan Evans
Paging Bill Murray, paging a Mr. Bill Murray, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:37:17 AM PDT
by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: Dan Evans
You'd think a tractor mounted rototiller could solve this problem.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:37:41 AM PDT
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid. It's also WWIV.)
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To: fivetoes
You hear about this?
WOO-HOOO!!
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:38:38 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Dan Evans
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:38:49 AM PDT
by
Uncledave
To: Dan Evans
>"I've got prairie dogs so thick I can't see straight"
Explosives?! Hardly
seems sporting. Why not call in
a Spectre gunship?
To: Dan Evans
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:39:52 AM PDT
by
BaBaStooey
(I heart Emma Caulfield.)
To: shag377
Prairie Dog shootin' is one hell of good time.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:40:30 AM PDT
by
vikzilla
To: east1234
Getting rid of the treehugging lefty librats in Boulder would help, too. THEY'RE the ones who are against control of these pests -even if they carry plague.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:40:42 AM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: Dan Evans
Sounds like a worse plague than squirrels.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:41:02 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Dan Evans
Don't you dare!!!
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:41:13 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(The media and the democrats are the biggest supporters of the terrorists.)
To: Dan Evans
When I was in seventh grade, the science teacher showed us a video which contained footage of this kind of extermination. It must have been in some kind of "environmental outrage" context, but all I remember from it was thinking, "Hey, that looks like fun!"
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:43:15 AM PDT
by
Eepsy
(Meet EWTN's Raymond Arroyo in Cleveland 10-27-06, Ask me how!)
To: Dan Evans
To: Dan Evans
Someone alert PETA!! We haven't seen a PETA meltdown in a long time.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:46:17 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: vikzilla
No kidding.. I'd love to have a dollar for everyone I shot..
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:46:21 AM PDT
by
tje
(Cold hearted orb, that rules the night....)
To: Dan Evans
Don't mind this. Just doctor's orders.
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posted on
09/08/2006 7:47:56 AM PDT
by
DancesWithBolsheviks
(Fatigued with the party always being in my backyard.)
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