PRESS RELEASE: Douglas County Mall and Prairie Dog Colony
Nation’s Biggest Mall in Douglas County Slated to Destroy One of the Largest Prairie Dog Colonies on the Front Range By Deanna Meyer: February 13, 2015 Castle Rock, CO - Douglas County’s Town of Castle Rock recently approved construction of the ‘Nation’s Biggest Mall’ on top of one of the largest prairie dog colonies along Colorado’s Front Range. The Black-Tailed Prairie Dog population is currently at less than 1% of its original number – these animals are in imminent danger of becoming extinct. Unfortunately, laws do not protect prairie dogs because they have been incorrectly classified as “pests”, a result of myths portraying them as plague-carrying, prairie-destroying rodents. However, scientific evidence clearly shows that prairie dogs enhance the prairies in every sense and that not one case of the plague in humans has been directly linked to prairie dogs. ...