I think I can help here. PLEASE give me the money you guys are spending on attorneys and I will buy a bunch of ammo. Close the golf course for a few days and the problem is solved! Wasn't that easy?

Back in the late sixtys up to the late seventies, I could legally by strychnine from the Drug store, just for signing for it. Mix a little in some bread put it near a hole, next morning no more problem. Its interesting how over 30 years things have changed. Back then, Praire dogs were considered bad- full of disease, and the holes caused horses and cattle problems from stepping in the holes. Now we can not even play golf? Guess the old feeling come from having lived in rural eastern Utah in my younger years.

C'mon, you guys, get real. Considering prairie dogs "bad" is juvenile. Proposing to solve complex problems with simple-minded gunplay is worse. Prairie dogs can create problems for humans sometimes, and people sometimes take action to control them. Most people are sympathetic to farmer's problems with prairie dogs. However, the Utah prairie dog is a species that we Utahns own the franchise on - it is restricted to a few places in south central Utah - and we should be taking steps to insure it's survival. I don't know the answer to one of the largest colonies being on a golf course, but let's at least give it a little sincere thought.

Move the golf course. The prairie dogs were there first.

The golf course has been around for about 45 yrs. The old timers at the course say prairie dogs were not on the golf course until 12-15 years ago. All the golfers want to do is manage the dogs on the 105 acres of grass that constitutes the golf course playing area. These dogs dig up around sprinklers, in bunkers, and make holes all over in the fairways and roughs. This costs the golf course thousands of dollars a year to maintain the danage. Maybe the golf course should get a little kick back from the federal gov. for feeding and giving the dog a nice safe place to live. Also, if the prairie dog is on a farmer's land he is not asked to move his farm. He is given a permit to clear his land of the prairie dog because it is damaging his crop production. Moving the golf course is not an option. How would the prairie dog get food and water if the irrigation and grass were taken away? The irrigation and nice fertilized grass is the reason the golf course has the most prairie dogs.

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"All the golfers want to do is manage the dogs..."
That, literally, is not the situation. The old plan was to manage them but not get rid of them. The new plan calls for completely eliminating the population from the area.

The prarie doggies dont know they if they is from utah, arizona, new mexico well you git my meanin. Utah doggies are just that, doggies in utah...perrid. Thees thar activits are jus a bunch of cry babys, they might could foucas on somthun imporant like starvin kids here in the u.s. or anythun to do with peopel, them animals come n go, if they die, then it was jus ther time accordin to mother natre.

Best we might could do is move em, an that is bein waaayyy too kind.