The Harvest Junction Village HOA wants to exterminate prairie dogs on three acres of land in Longmont, but activists say they can relocate them for free.
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This isn't the first time Fraina has tried to save prairie dogs. He recently helped coordinate a volunteer effort to relocate around one hundred prairie dogs from Dry Creek Park in Longmont to Pueblo; after the city had already moved around 800 prairie dogs off the property, local officials planned to kill the remaining creatures. Although volunteers couldn’t move all of animals off the property, saving an extra hundred still felt significant to Fraina.
Prairie dogs are often associated with plague and considered one of the most susceptible animals in Colorado to the disease, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. In 2019, parking and camping at the annual weekend of Phish concerts in Commerce City was restricted after local health officials determinedof plague connected to prairie dogs in Colorado since 1957. Fraina doesn’t want misconceptions to head to more unnecessary animal deaths.
“We have an effective barrier, volunteers that are willing to help out with costs and time to install it, and the HOA might even profit from the rent they can charge the prairie dogs,” Fraina says. “I don't really understand why they would want to just kill off them right away.”, which allow extermination, are available for properties or prairie dog territories less than 1.5 acres in size or if the property qualifies as having urban development.
“There is a prairie dog colony that spans both Harvest Junction Village property and City of Longmont property,” Pabst says. “We are working with the City of Longmont as the colony needs to be addressed in its totality. Other than that we have no comment.”
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