Prairie Dogs To Be Relocated To Former Nuclear Weapons Facility

By Karen Morfitt
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)– Around 300 prairie dogs will be relocated from an area in Longmont to the Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge.
Susan Sommers is one of several animal activists with prairie protection Colorado who fought for the move.
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“If they are not relocated to Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge these prairie dogs will be exterminated,” Sommers said.
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Despite the property, home to a nuclear weapons production facility at one time,