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[Larryjk]

rainydays, Do the land-owners let people in to shoot the p-dogs, or do they charge for hunting? I have done control work on two ranches where they wanted the p-dogs reduced. One ranch manager said the prairie dogs disappeared the year after I shot them down. I don't know what the cause for that might be, but would be inclined to think it may have been disease going through his population of dogs.
I am only familiar with the area north of Bismark around Washburn and east where I hunt pheasants sometimes. I don't remembeer seeing p-dogs in that area.

[Catfish]

I`ve never hunted pd`s, but back here in Oh. the groundhog is the biggest problem to the farmers. Haveing been a farmer I am sure that any thing you do to reduce hunting presure on them would not be taken well by them.

[rainydays]

Originally Posted by Larryjk

rainydays, Do the land-owners let people in to shoot the p-dogs, or do they charge for hunting? I have done control work on two ranches where they wanted the p-dogs reduced. One ranch manager said the prairie dogs disappeared the year after I shot them down. I don't know what the cause for that might be, but would be inclined to think it may have been disease going through his population of dogs.
I am only familiar with the area north of Bismark around Washburn and east where I hunt pheasants sometimes. I don't remembeer seeing p-dogs in that area.

I really don't can't say for certain if the private landowners charge to shoot. I would imagine that some probably do. I mostly hunt on Federal lands. I do know that some of the private landowners have also gone to poisoning dogs. As far as I know, there are not any PD's north of Bismarck.
Hey, I went to high school in Washburn.