BOULDER — Under an updated set of prairie-dog management strategies scheduled for the Boulder County Parks and Open Space Advisory Committee’s consideration on Thursday night, tenant farmers would be given more authority to control the animals that invade the fields on agricultural lands they’re leasing from the county.
Those agricultural tenants would have to meet requirements, to be developed by the Boulder County staff, for relocating or killing the prairie dogs on the county-owned land, a process that could only be completed during specific times of the year.
In the past, only Boulder County’s Parks and Open Space Department staff could conduct such prairie dog control activities on the farm land it rents out, according to resource planner Jesse Rounds. He said the county’s tenant farmers wouldn’t have to jump through as many hoops as they currently do to oust the animals posing threats to their crops.
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