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Varmints / the Ecology Center presents ; a High Plains film ; a Doug Hawes-Davis documentary ; producer, director & editor, Doug Hawes-Davis.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prairie dogs--Great Plains.
- Prairie dogs.
- Prairie dogs--Conservation--Great Plains.
- Prairie dogs--Government policy--United States.
- Pests--Great Plains.
- Pests.
- Varmint hunting--Great Plains.
- Varmint hunting.
- Grassland ecology--Great Plains.
- Grassland ecology.
- Government policy.
- Great Plains.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Environmental films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Wildlife films.
- Educational films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (91 min.) : digital, sound, color with black and white sequences
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2018]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Officially declared a 'varmint', the prairie dog may be hunted with no restrictions as to season, method, or number of animals taken. This documentary examines the prairie dog's role as a keystone species in the grasslands of the northern plains states. Ecologists, hunters, ranchers, and others are interviewed. Archival footage shows the U.S. government's official eradication policy of the 1930s, and the contemporary sport of varmint hunting is profiled.
- Credits:
- Camera & sound, Drury Gunn Carr.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Doug Hawes-Davis, ©1998; previously released in 1999.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 10, 2018).
- Publisher Number:
- bf-var Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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