Prairie Dog Restoration

a group of people holding cages with prairie dogs and standing in the snow

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COFWCO staff, SCA intern, and Colorado State University - Pueblo professor and student transferring black tailed prairie dogs from live traps to a transport kennel so they can be release at the short grass prairie restoration site at Pueblo Chemical Depot.

Facility

Colorado Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office

Ecosystem

Mountain

Prairie

Species

Cynomys ludovicianus

Staff

Rickey Jones

Dana Shellhorn

Subject tags

Biodiversity

Grasslands

Habitat conservation

Mammals

Prairies

Research

Rodents

Wildlife management

Wildlife restoration

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