Prairie dog town, outside Celestial Seasonings. Boulder, Colorado. May 2016. |
Outside the Celestial Seasonings plant near Boulder is a prairie dog town.
Prairie dog town, outside Celestial Seasonings. Boulder, Colorado. May 2016. |
Prairie dogs are, of course, our domestic version of those telenovela characters of the animal kingdom, meerkats.
A little movie here:
There is past melodrama aplenty between these prairie dogs and Celestial Seasonings.
In 1999, someone discovered that the company was poisoning the prairie dog community under the cover of night:
Prairie dog town, outside Celestial Seasonings. Boulder, Colorado. May 2016. |
The company handled the resulting outrage gracefully, ceding the land to the prairie dogs.
Boulder County has a prairie dog management program that strives to preserve the native black-tailed prairie dog population while acknowledging the demands of agricultural and business land use.
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