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VERO Faculty Member Earns Prestigious American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine Diplomate Certification – The PRAIRIE

dr Becky Eschmann, a faculty member with the Veterinary Education, Research, & Outreach partnership between Texas A&M University’s School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and West Texas A&M University’s Paul Engler College of Agriculture & Natural Sciences, recently earned the prestigious American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine Diplomate certification. Only 10 percent of veterinarians currently hold board certification in …

Boulder County OK’s lifting seasonal moratorium on lethal prairie dog control – Boulder Daily Camera

Boulder County commissioners agreed Thursday to lift a seasonal moratorium on lethal prairie dog control in an attempt to better address burgeoning prairie dog colonies on agricultural lands. The moratorium prohibited extermination on open space land designated as not suitable for prairie dogs from March 1 to May 31, which is their breeding season. Lifting the moratorium allows the county …

Boulder hosts annual prairie dog update as it prepares for 2022

Boulder continues efforts to keep prairie dogs in city-managed free fields. In a plan initiated by Boulder City Council in September 2020, Boulder expanded deadly and non-fatal prairie dog mitigation to irrigated agricultural land managed by Open Space and Mountain Parks north of Jay Road and west of Diagonal. This plan calls for the relocation of 30 to 40 hectares …

Boulder wrapping up a year of prairie dog relocation efforts

Before loading cages of prairie dogs onto the back of a truck, Lindsey Sterling Krank and Jenny Bryant shared a high-five. Their work on Friday resulted in a new home for 15 prairie dogs who live on the Nu West South location, irrigated agricultural land southwest of Boulder Reservoir managed by Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks. Double digits are …