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The deadline to request assistance for landowners facing a prairie dog invasion nears. South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks offers a prairie dog encroachment program, but landowners have until Aug. 15 to apply for assistance. 

While cute, prairie dogs are also destructive and carriers of disease.

GF&P’s encroachment program has its limitations and is only for property owners adjacent to public lands from which the varmints launch their squatting attempts.

“GFP will control prairie dogs that have encroached onto private land from adjacent public land, with a few exclusions,” the agency explains. “Landowners who have encroachment problems on their property from adjacent public land must be within one mile of the public land and have at least 10 acres of actual prairie dog colonies to be eligible for assistance.”

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