LP8 Assignment: Land Owner vs. Prairie Dog Case Study The U.S. has about 319 mil

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LP8 Assignment: Land Owner vs. Prairie Dog Case Study

The U.S. has about 319 million hectare (ha) or 788 million acres of rangeland, and about 60 percent of this is privately owned. Prairie dogs also use this land, but their activities can destroy the land's use and make it unusable for grazing livestock. Prairie dogs and the holes they build are environmentally important and create burrows for many other species of animals, among other things. Range owners, though, use the land to graze their livestock and feel that the prairie dogs threaten their livelihoods, careers, and means for supporting their families. Range owners use various methods of removal to save their land for grazing. What do you think? Who has more right to the land? Can land use be mitigated to serve all parties?

Use the following links to learn more about this current environmental controversy:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
White-Tailed Prairie Dog

Sierra Club

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog

Society of Rangeland Management

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog

National Geographic

Prairie Dog Poisoning

Create a stakeholder matrix from the supplemental instructional materials in Learning Plan 8 and consider the needs of the following:

Choose one of the stakeholders from your matrix and create a one page speech, based on that perspective, to present at the town meeting described in the following scenario.

Scenario

The local range land owners are distraught by the destruction of their land from prairie dogs that come over from protected lands onto their land. They have started to use measures for eliminating the prairie dogs, such as guns and poison. Local citizens are either for or against this, depending on who they are. Local and distant environmentalists are against this and point out the important ecosystem functions of the prairie dogs for maintaining local biodiversity, and have issue with poisons being indiscriminately used on the land. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents want to help create a policy that would serve all parties, and the town mayor and committee just want to help mitigate the political unrest and protesting that is occurring in their town. The town meeting is to determine what to do about this issue.

Stakeholder

Explanation / Answer

Stakeholders

What position do they hold?

Why do they hold this position?

Are there specific values beneath their positions?

What outcome would they prefer to see?

Local citizens

Land Owners

Prairie Dogs

Black footed ferret

Grazing animals

Environmental

nature

Scientists/Conservationists

Town committee and mayor

Political and to follow the US wildlife principles

Local ecosystem

Stakeholders

What position do they hold?

Why do they hold this position?

Are there specific values beneath their positions?

What outcome would they prefer to see?

Local citizens

They are Either for or against this They are not affected by praire dogs No specific values There is no particular for this stake holder

Land Owners

They are against Destruction of their land from praire dogs Yes. To Protect their land They want to eliminate the praire dogs

Prairie Dogs

Maintaining local bio diversity Environmental nature They are to maintain bio diversity No Specific outcome to see

Black footed ferret

To hunt Praire dogs Food To feed themselves To kill and eat praire dogs

Grazing animals

maintaining balanced and diverse ecosystems

Environmental

nature

Increases the diversity of habitats available to wildlife species Balanced eco system

Scientists/Conservationists

They are against land lords To protect the praire dogs Ecosystem functions of praire dogs To protect ecosystem by saving praire dogs

Town committee and mayor

To support Land lords both political and lands lords benefits

Political and to follow the US wildlife principles

To analyse and settle down the problems of land lords

Local ecosystem

To save the ecosystem Praire dogs are needed to maintain the stable ecosystem To maintain the ecosystem so inorder to protect other species Protect the praire dogs and other species

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