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<blockquote data-quote="Gary Morgan" data-source="post: 197297" data-attributes="member: 8580"><p><strong>prairie dog mortality</strong></p><p></p><p>I have been hunting prairie dogs on and off for 35 years. In that time, the greatest change in the prairie dog population I have witnessed has been due to poisoning. The biggest increase in poisoning began five or six years ago in the Texas Panhandle where I do all my PD shooting. This time period also coincided with PETA and other groups beginning to really push hard to put the PD on the endangered species list. It is my belief that at least in the Texas Panhandle the farmers and ranchers said to themselves, "We've been able to live with the PD for the most part because varminters have helped keep them in check, but if the PD is put on the endangered species list and they can no longer be hunted, we will have a completely untenable situation. Armed with this thought, we better poison them now while we have a chance." AND THEY HAVE.</p><p></p><p>I am in the process now of trying to get some spots to hunt in mid-May. I use Google Earth a lot to find promising areas. You simply would not believe how many spots I find on Google Earth that have tremendous colonies of PDs, and when I contact the landowner the answer is, "I wish I still had some for you to shoot, but I poisoned those little devils. They're all gone."</p><p></p><p>I personally have never seen an apppreciable diminution in a PD population from hunting. They get smart, and when they see a vehicle pull up, they scamper for their holes, and down they go. I don't care how good a shot you are, you can't hit a PD in the bottom of his hole.</p><p></p><p>It's really sad, but we have nobody but PETA and the like to thank for this demise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gary Morgan, post: 197297, member: 8580"] [b]prairie dog mortality[/b] I have been hunting prairie dogs on and off for 35 years. In that time, the greatest change in the prairie dog population I have witnessed has been due to poisoning. The biggest increase in poisoning began five or six years ago in the Texas Panhandle where I do all my PD shooting. This time period also coincided with PETA and other groups beginning to really push hard to put the PD on the endangered species list. It is my belief that at least in the Texas Panhandle the farmers and ranchers said to themselves, "We've been able to live with the PD for the most part because varminters have helped keep them in check, but if the PD is put on the endangered species list and they can no longer be hunted, we will have a completely untenable situation. Armed with this thought, we better poison them now while we have a chance." AND THEY HAVE. I am in the process now of trying to get some spots to hunt in mid-May. I use Google Earth a lot to find promising areas. You simply would not believe how many spots I find on Google Earth that have tremendous colonies of PDs, and when I contact the landowner the answer is, "I wish I still had some for you to shoot, but I poisoned those little devils. They're all gone." I personally have never seen an apppreciable diminution in a PD population from hunting. They get smart, and when they see a vehicle pull up, they scamper for their holes, and down they go. I don't care how good a shot you are, you can't hit a PD in the bottom of his hole. It's really sad, but we have nobody but PETA and the like to thank for this demise. [/QUOTE]
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