[WayneS]

The program also killed 15,698 black-tailed prairie dogs and destroyed more than 33,309 of their dens.

That's a little more than two dens per prairie dog.

If these animals could each afford more than one den, then they were probably members of the prairie dog elite, the "1%", and they deserved to be killed...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

But, but twenty five years ago the anti-hunters were bawling about how hunters were driving the prairie dog to extinction!