Colorado Allows Explosives to Exterminate Prairie Dogs

[Canuck_Buck]

DENVER"”In their battle against prairie dogs, land owners in Colorado have a new weapon: explosive gas.

The Colorado Wildlife Commission on Thursday agreed to let farmers and others with too many of the busy diggers to use systems that pump a propane mixture into the burrows, then ignites the gas.
Sterling farmer Matt Fickes said he was "tickled pink" with the new weapon in his war with prairie dogs.

"I've got prairie dogs so thick I can't see straight," he said. "They are born pregnant."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212992,00.html

Now they can blow em up real good.

[Champlain Islander]

I wonder if he welcomes hunters to his land to help with the problem? [:@]
But what about those poor worms that are being toasted?

[Canuck_Buck]

Fickes, who said he has tried poison and shoots about 20 prairie dogs a week on his 60 acres, said he'll try the new method if it helps him keep pace.
"I'm losing the battle," Fickes said. "The prairie dog is a rat with a shovel."

I wonder if this includes others helping?

Any ads in the newspapers down there asking for assistance?

Maybe we could plan an HNI prairie dog shoot gathering??