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  • Boulder to remove, euthanize prairie dogs ( Colorado )

    09/13/2008 7:38:42 AM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies · 842+ views
    Daily Camera ^ | September 12, 2008 | Heath Urie
    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...