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Once again we are asked a question with more than one answer. Far too much depends on particular circumstances, such as the land conditions, what the land is used for, etc.

Up here in the Buffalo National Grasslands, I see no threat from the dog. He has his place, just as all of Mother Nature's critters do. Now, on farm land or hay fields, it may be a different story.

One of the primary problems lies, not with the prairie dog, but with the general unbalance we find ourselves in when addressing nature. If there are enough predators around, there would not be a dog problem. However, if we have killed off the predators, then the dog population will get out of hand.

Mother Nature devised a pretty good plan on how to keep a balance. If one species get to be a problem, another species grows to control that problem.

Now, man has stepped in, killed off much of the predators species, and we end up with an abundence of praire dogs, white tail deer, and many other species.

So, to accurately answer this question, I would have to say both.

What once was vermin may now be just a western critter. I know so often we act hastely to remove what we think ales us when in hind sight we were really wrong and just treating a symptom. I live on the edge of a mountain range that once was home to wolf griz and jaguar. While those critters were problems for the bee keepers and small ranchers that settled the range and valleys, they were less problems then the subdivisions and associated human activities that have begun to invade my piece of western paradise over the past 50 years. There were once millions of bison on the western plains and we believed they would last forever and now how many do we see. Let the prairie dogs be and give us "Westerners" something to fret over.