Our Vanishing Wilderness; 2; The Prairie Killers

for ere air are it's been the pittsburgh has been it's rodeo time white river south dakota prairie town in the midst of an indian reservation summer streets are usually baked blinding an empty rodeo

miles around mostly sioux indians at this as that displaced persons on one reason than expected from like well the grossman's two hundred new revolution has changed planes he's been unemployed but for a white man to go into question or will i he says in a managed parks of south dakota's black hills today fifteen hundred buffalo or bison are an image of what it was

like when thirty million roamed the prairie from texas to canada and from the rockies he's nursing as they travel writing two thousand pound bulls testing each other powerful pick their very presence affecting all of the things birds mammals insects the grasses themselves went into a life chain of the land and among them and then everything works as bleak has been thinking well let's break off method for inviting in sex would after years of use that goldwater and become part of taxes

in and wherever the bison were the pronghorn antelope was also and the intent there was an equilibrium a kind of a lasting given predator in prying western and when we went to war and european energy and nothing not the flashing white robes of the emotional in danger because you know reasonable thing to make a relationship the paintings because there were twenty one and the prairie changed it says in the bible god gave man

dominion over the fish of the sea over the fall of the air and over every living thing she says and she questions ukraine's russian plant and insect populations he wrote the rich diet of corn crops toby's initial position go from her relational for the all these problem robinson worms turned up in this way before

for history and me and remember back room and confusion misery here from the cliche from the new overlord fans to pasture partial a sea of grass and made it impossible for the migratory bison every combat roles and his barrier push became a perch for the preval a place to eat it's pretty years at the indian never built a fence he had no conception of possessing section chunks of the earth ms hillman does this is my land he says an iphone and i own what's on that tune which was

over and the sky is the coyote is the most successful mediator left on the prairie he eats rodents and rabbits mostly but it also competes with manned by killing livestock and so the game animals he'll leave himself he says he liked the wild turkey and reduced funding for this the coyote has been trapped and poisoned pursued by airplane and hunted almost to extinction in some places in nineteen sixty six or over seventy seven thousand were killed by government corruption still has managed to survive it changed her act it said it very often you know

he wrote it meteors huge gray basic needs a part of the target but the prairie dog could cope with its natural enemies before the land use change their the farmers ranchers he had an organized way of life so there was safety in numbers in a broad view across the short grass in the family and social structure it's from the vantage of their moms to dodge jeep and ever watchful eye out for predators a major pain in the arm was relayed like a local chain reaction throughout the community always pressure sometimes even from inside the town the black footed ferret is following all of these primaries this

american weasel lives and breathes right in the town because of prairie dog is what he eats what he feeds his young he was always were so rare that the sewage know specifically before and only a description of these fees the appeal the sub par with a lot less his writing play actually a little different from that of any other weasel is still rare and delightful site because of the massive prairie dog poisoning the ferret we disappear forever this area it's

been nice centuries of experience has taught the predominant no good to hide from rattlesnake by running into a whole three phase of the fiction prize to harvard over used to recruit make any way through a rough go for the real level of the hole for perry dove at him pleasure thanks lynn it's benny i

need you in the natural state traders will not and cannot destroy the prey population but man cans as for prairie dogs between nineteen hundred and today federal and state governments have poisoned hundreds of millions why because prairie dogs the grass cows eat grass today we think ecology show a prairie dogs and you got to affect a hundred other things fuel the protests and what happens to the prey it poisons those losses have some analysts talk i like it just because you like to see the same thing that you might want to get rid of our policy and my dad comes out

we're very seldom anymore but when he does he like to see the cattle in good condition unlike see that making good condition can you do color may not be a typical regimen like you did it he owns land lives on that works and shares of wild things in the last few years has signed up for the working white just like himself i'm a total of three hundred and fifty thousand acres in south dakota's black culture telling the government's control agents with the pure sport fisheries and wildlife to keep off their election season and would rather see poisoning eliminated here altogether not all agree certainly not see him weaver another rancher and he then we're at that quote that paint problem the past few years encana poison trap get rid of an early so we nominated but then we still have options

for school from hundred and fifty at your losses yes but certainly not holding tryouts your ears every day and she puts been eaten by a car not necessarily been killed by a client she die of other causes still feels comfy pressed by what he sees as an economic threat the ritual called richard wetsel in peer who supervises animal control of medical records so the kurds are going to another's whenever the problem here and let companies actually control king's things prairie dog for the workers that was a coyote and riddled with

boyd and we're feeling trapped hayley generation than they would've called a really big they wouldn't get horse lot of the deadly canine poison and they can be placed on the range it keeps and poisons a lot of violence and unfortunately a lot of other things too right now lives over the approach is different and one day in print on to a pile of also a carcass and no coke can resist it is and a device called a corner and it's lethal <unk> transfer wise skillful gentleman who's been on the ring tone as well he understands why life and he has great respect for it but he believes in his job and

performs with precision or three part series states michel pour the show we use the coyote or ships a cartridge a sign it into the coast was one animal pulls at the teletype one gator kills one kind it's been the case before it

is because we want to know of course carlos can agree with it and neither can badgers raccoons or dogs he says a puppeteer kind of those kind of these are measures of those reaffirmed key to prairie dogs ice in the winter and the rattlesnakes he went viral up together i really incredible with poems only stones into the flat of attacks so i could be gotten out of the trap sixth

or fifth sixth and it's backlit is badly damaged but he may survive for a big spray goes out with his front feet rangers current we weren't sharp disagreement about the necessity for all this meaning a killing while carr figures the taxes that pay for the trevor noah's expense a nationwide it's about seven million dollars and he notes that she wasn't one hundred percent next week after the quake it's against the law for people in our area can suffer i just assume given the money and in that this will require the people and plus we would have to put up with the point that fit with his hometown in the practice and

there you go and i think a lot of we my neighbor appear haven't had any poison for two years as a lost sheep from a coyote a big it's a kind of medical technology then i will help him with a gun under government trucks like these led by don fortenberry dr hooper it's not that you want to say there is also the goal of sport fisheries and while there are the policies that we will not wear is up for hours at their expected to be cut in order to locate black footed ferrets to protect teens of wildlife men are brought out to place for ferrets are

notably so the men can learn and recognize their son it's not easy to find her when hungary curiosity really not your job badger will don't own true north are usually sweet adult readers weeping prairie dog he would just wave the lead reporter on the only way we think we know of

her hero her three hundred and nine er or convert all twenty one are working for the people of the one of the plot to escape what good are the court has heard and the tsunami to question and we're going to know about a provocative vote on the law but there is an epilogue jim gullo you drew praise for the nomination two hundred and fifty nine or two and ninety nine or some number of bulbs will eat much faster years account altogether to say i'm supporting nine an adult that cost me three thousand years say and this would be assuming that they'll be going back i think that it i can reasonably assume that i make a profit and thirty dollars now three year well i know i get nine you know there's nothing to prevent the

individual rancher from poisoning prairie dogs himself as his land you drive your cattle pasture to protect things spread stretch and treated optional then sets about length with things but the preakness but mm hmm you can see

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been as pop each bird or a chain of life becomes a chain of the fed is a dead dog town as a silent place and john hammond jr i was born the black hills not far from here i spend much time on the prairie back in the thirties i was hired by the biological survey i made population counts of mammals and birds and control work when necessary and at that time it was sundown towns are over one hundred miles long in some places twenty miles wide i want to end and cruz going to be used for i remember one of

three years to push but things have changed now a very large dollar donors a few thousand acres and can be crossed an hour today prairie dogs do not need to be controlled only just locally and very light is just finally coming to everyone's i think that there's no need now for this great mass of the structure we the death of a prairie dog town affects every living thing that depends on that most of all the fear he's dispossessed an unemployed prairie dog under the world is no longer yours can't compete with the market is here if credit card and so the empty halls below the strongest suitors as it

is and where will the ferret will live because of the poisoning dog towns are no fuel far between says well the changes too late for him for us is any men have the right to change nature to his will simply because you can listen to all of life must we haven't one hundred percent with killed indiscriminately we have killed deliberately we have killed without even knowing what any species dies the creations never again to be duplicated we ourselves are one of these creations i'm a lot younger than the others and we're in danger so cause now look carefully at what's left of our eating

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