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- But what few know is that Lubbock is also home to a colony of protected prairie dogs that entertain and delight visitors and locals alike. Prairie Dog Town is located in Lubbock’s Mackenzie Park and includes a pavilion and viewing areas so that visitors can enjoy these cute rodents (who are actually cousins to squirrels) in their habitat.
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Nov 2, 2018 · But what few know is that Lubbock is also home to a colony of protected prairie dogs that entertain and delight visitors and locals alike. Lubbock is known for several things, paramount among them, it's the home of Texas Tech University and also the hometown of music legend Buddy Holly.
The people at the National Ranching Heritage Center told us about the prairie dog town in McKenzie Park. The prairie dogs are kind of all over but most seem to be in the athletic field. You can't get too terribly close to them but they are fun to watch and listen to them bark at you.
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601 East Municipal Drive. Lubbock, TX 79401. (806) 775-2687. Website. About. The vision of Prairie Dog Town was conceived and implemented by K. N. Clapp in 1935. In the 1930’s the government’s poisoning program was becoming effective, and he was alarmed that the extinction of the black-tailed prairie dog would result. Mr.
The world’s largest prairie dog colony once covered a large swath of Texas. By Eva Frederick. An intrepid cowboy riding across the Texas Panhandle in the early 1900s might have encountered a town nearly 200 times the size of Houston, sprawling over 25,000 square miles of short-grass prairie.
Mar 17, 2018 · The city of Lubbock used to contract with Lynda Watson, a notable prairie dog catcher in West Texas who works with a number of cities and contractors to relocate prairie dogs rather than kill...
Apr 1, 2019 · The prairie dog colony was moved to the current location when Mackenzie Park became a state park in 1935. Within five years at its current location, Prairie Dog Town became a tourist attraction for the city of Lubbock.
Aug 10, 2020 · Prairie Dog Town was established in Mackenzie Park in the early 1930’s by Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy N. Clapp. It was started with four dogs and two burrows and was the first protected prairie dog colony of its kind.
