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8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ashley Matthews: Help ... · 0 replies · +3 points

If you live near city of Boulder Open Space and you are lucky enough to not have a prairie dog colony on it now and you would like to keep it that way, you would be wise to let the City know in advance that you object, less they move them there to destroy the open space and move onto your property....

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Tony Moores: Look no f... · 0 replies · +2 points

Exactly

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ashley Matthews: Help ... · 0 replies · +2 points

NOOO!!!! Please do not try to get City of Boulder to relocate this colony!! Out of the thousands of acres that they own, most are out side city limits in the county and the prairie dog colonies located there already are at great conflict with many neighboring properties and certainly respect no boundaries, and would not stay within their allotted 2 1/2 acres.

Prairie dogs should only be located where there is suitable habitat and enough buffer to ensure that they will not move to adjoining properties- City of Boulder open space is maxed out and they are not properly managing the colonies that they have.

Additionally, forced colony relocation is expensive and rarely successful.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Ashley Matthews: Help ... · 0 replies · +8 points

And spread by the prairie dogs that they infest.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Parents rally around p... · 0 replies · 0 points

The teachers are bound to the same confidentiality rules I think. He did NOT want to get out of the program. Apparently this decision was made by the principal as stated in the news article. Many are speculating that the principal is against the CHOICE program and that may be part of the reason behind the decision. Of course when there is no information to be had, people start speculating, which is a dangerous thing.... Facts and transparency would be much better.

Teacher can't fight the move- done deal. That does not keep the parents and students from objecting.

8 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Parents rally around p... · 0 replies · +1 points

In general, confidentiality rules regarding personnel issues are good things. They can also be misused and turn out to be bad. We have been through this with the school systems before and it is very frustrating when decisions are made regarding personnel and no explanation whatsoever is given.

Mr. Waldman was an extremely popular and effective teacher, and the decision is shocking to pretty much everyone whose kids are in the program, and even those who have graduated are extremely upset. You are just supposed to trust the administration's decision - which may or may not be based on sound reasoning, and I can't judge for myself because I have absolutely no clue what this was based on. There is no apparent reason and furthermore, Mr. Waldman was a wonderful teacher in the program and very key to this close community- based school. There is a reason that parents are so upset with this surprise.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Don R. Sherwood: Unpro... · 1 reply · +1 points

Awesome lapidary statement, and so true!

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Plague found in Boulde... · 0 replies · +2 points

Prairie dogs ARE an important part of the ecosystem and they should not be exterminated. City of Boulder should properly mange their prairie dog preservation areas on property where sustainability can be expected and where they can reasonably attempt to keep them from spreading to neighboring properties. They only seem to care about damage to neighboring properties if it damages city-funded infrastructures such as soccer fields. If that happens, then they decide it is okay to relocate the prairie dogs to an area where others will have to deal with them.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Plague found in Boulde... · 0 replies · +1 points

Oh there are much better ways to approach this problem than joining the Boulder County community rights network! That is just a bunch of peak oil fractivists who want to drive us back to the stone age masquerading as champions of rights. Instead, call and send letters to the OSMP, City council and county commissioners and let them know what you think. The city created this problem in unincorporated Boulder County and our commissioners need to help us out with the conflict the City of Boulder is causing to county residents.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Plague found in Boulde... · 2 replies · 0 points

This is an example of open space owned and extremely poorly managed by the City of Boulder in unincorporated Boulder County. This 44 acres on a slope is not suitable and not appropriate for sustainable management of a prairie dog colony. There is no buffer between neighborhoods and the damage from the City's prairie dog colony has to be fought back continually by neighboring properties and the City could not care less, and certainly does not view the threat of plague as anything to worry about.

The cities polices and practices are clearly at odds with the citizens of the county on properties like these where OSMP pretends that the are managing the prairie dogs. Oh, and this is supposed to be a grassland management area too. Guess how much grass is left after years of unchecked prairie dog colonization- very little. The hillside is covered in bindweed and other non-native invasive weeds and subject to a high degree of erosion, and of course since the prairie dogs have eaten all the habitat on this small parcel they are continually spreading out. I would not be surprised if the stress of living on this poor habitat has contributed to their contraction of disease. This area should not be allowed by the city to be recolonized.

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