We should also be actively pushing congress to demand listing of the black tailed prairie dog as endangered. This would put a final stop to the extermination of the food supply for our BFFs and would help end the mass killings of the prairie dogs elsewhere. The fact that prairie dogs are good for the environment should far outweigh arguments in favor of killing them just to promote rancher profits. This is especially true where ranchers have allowed their cattle to devastate the federal lands our government allows them to use for free. Katherin Sebelius has shown herself to be environmentally aware in the past. Lets hope that we can convince her to step in now. Failing that lets get it together to protect the prairie dogs federally. [Posted in FML 6180]