Colorado Prairie Dog Squad

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ESCO Associates, Inc. (2008). Prairie Dog Vegetation Monitoring Transects: Davidson Mesa. City of Louisville Open Space. Louisville, CO.

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Lomolino, M. V., & Smith, G. A. (2003). Terrestrial Vertebrate Communities at Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys Ludovicianus) Towns. Biological Conservation, 115, 89-100. 

 

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Magle, S.B., Poessel, S.A., Crooks, K.R. & Breck, S.W. (2014) More dogs less bite: The relationship between human-coyote conflict and prairie dog colonies in an urban landscape. Landscape and Urban Planning. 127. 146-153.

 

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Melman, S. D., Ettestad, P. E., VinHatton, E. S., Ragsdale, J. M., Takacs, N., Onischuk, L. M., Leonard, P. M., Master, S. S., Lucero. V. S., Kingry, L. C., Petersen, J. M. (2018). Human case of bubonic plague resulting from the bite of a wild Gunnison's prairie dog during translocation from a plague-endemic area. Zoonoses Public Health (65). 254-258.

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Morse, L. K., Powell, R. L., & Sutton, P. C. (2012) Scampering in the city: examining attitudes toward black-tailed prairie dogs in Denver, Colorado. Applied Geography, 35(1-2), 414-421.

 

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