A sign posted at the edge of a vacant lot in east Longmont indicated to passersby that a colony of prairie dogs, which have been the source of tension between the property owner and prairie dog activists, were exterminated en masse sometime Friday morning.
“They had an opportunity to move them,” said Jeremy Gregory. “This is completely inhumane.”
Gregory said he is executive director of Tindakan, a nonprofit support organization for “eco-social justice issues,” and he came to the scene to document the extermination.
“My objective was to witness and document what they were doing and disseminate the information,” he said. “(That way) people are aware of the immorality of this profits over life mindset.”
The sign posted on the parcel of land that sits south of Ken Pratt Boulevard and west of East Third Avenue stated that aluminum phosphide, a poisonous chemical, had been applied to the prairie dog burrows, which were then covered up with dirt.
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