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Letter to The Nature Conservancy requesting they discontinue poisoning prairie dogs – Sign the petition!
On September 22, 2007 the Hays Daily News reported that The Nature Conservancy illegally gassed prairie dogs with Phostoxin® on its Smoky Valley Ranch in Kansas. This article shocked many, who learned for the first time that The Nature Conservancy lethally controls prairie dogs. The Nature Conservancy also supports the Forest Service’s plan to poison prairie dogs on Thunder Basin National Grassland. Although The Nature Conservancy recognizes the importance of prairie dogs as a keystone species and recognizes their dramatic population decline over the last century, the organization also acknowledges that it “culls” (i.e., poisons) prairie dogs.