Monday, April 16, 2007

News Report on Prairie Dogs in Boulder Colorado

Since the blog portion of Digital Newsroom is due on April 20th and I won't have all of my Dailycamera.com video segments done by then, I thought I'd post some of the other video segments I've done for News Team Boulder.

This package is in more of a traditional news package format, with a standup and traditional interview, but it takes a look at the controversy around not only prairie dogs, but competing interests of development and wildlife. I spoke with both Debra Flanders, a restoration ecologist and Julie Johnson, a spokesperson for Boulder's Open Spaces Program.

Prairie dogs can carry plague, and there have been outbreaks in Boulder County over the last several years. Different people present various perspectives on whether prairie dogs are a threat to humans, or whether they're an essential part of Colorado's ecology.

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