Study Group for Wildlife and Open Spaces

Habitat Harmony, Inc., has been involved with wildlife and open space issues in the larger Flagstaff area for over seven years.  We coordinated scientific input for the Urban Open Spaces Plan which is part of the Regional Plan.  During this time we worked with a dozen or more scientists who care deeply about the preservation of wildlife and habitat in the Flagstaff area.
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Interagency Management Plan for Gunnison’s Prairie Dogs in Arizona

• Identifies minimum number of active acres to be maintained in Arizona (108,353 acres)
• Requires maintaining prairie dog populations across 75% of their historic range
• Directs monitoring incidence of plague and threats to habitat
• Requires development of mitigation program for urban prairie dogs

In 2004, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was petitioned to list the Gunnison’s prairie dog for protection under the Endangered Species Act. As a result of this petition, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies created the Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Conservation Assessment (Seglund et al. 2006) to assess the conservation concerns of the species.  Habitat Harmony was a member of the Working Group responsible for the Gunnison’s Prairie Dog Conservation Assessment. This Assessment led to the Interagency Management Plan for Gunnison's Prairie Dogs in Arizona.
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Interagency Management Plan for Gunnison's Prairie Dogs in Arizona

Saving the Prairie is Saving Ourselves

        Scientific statistics speak for themselves:  prairie dog habitat of the great western plains has been reduced to approximately one percent of its historical range.  Prairie dogs once dominated the short and mixed grass prairies of the Great Plains, occupying as much as 100-250 million acres. Today, they occupy a mere fraction of that, and are struggling to survive. In 1900, it is estimated that there were only 20 wild buffalo roaming the American plains where once there were over 60 million.  Gone forever are the plains wolf, plains grizzly, Audubon's bighorn sheep and the Eskimo curlew. Many consider that the Great Plains are more endangered than the rain forests of central America.

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