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Published on: 12/3/2008
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One of those members was Mike Beam, senior vice president of the Kansas Livestock Association.
While he opposes putting prairie dogs on the endangered species list, he said several proposals in the plan have not taken place.
One of those was a change in state law, which currently requires eradication of the prairie dogs as a pest.
Efforts to change the law came in 2002, but language inserted into the House bill served as a poison pill that prevented a conference committee from even meeting, Beam said.
Beam said he and the KLA would "absolutely" oppose the listing of prairie dogs as endangered.
"We'll do all we can to keep that from being done," he said.