There are few Western issues as controversial as prairie dogs. Some people hate them because they cut down grass livestock need to eat. Others love them because they're a keystone species… creating an ecosystem that attracts dozens of other species. Now the U.S. Forest Service has released a proposed plan for how to manage prairie dogs on the Thunder Basin National Grasslands in eastern Wyoming. That's a place where the species has experienced huge swings in population in recent years.
Wyoming Public Radio's Melodie Edwards spoke with Dave Pallatz with the Thunder Basin Grasslands Prairie Ecosystem Association about their decades of experience participating in stakeholder collaborations.
