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The Ecology Center
presents


close up of savage as shot zooms out slightly on chamber, ejects shell, loads new one

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two shots and talking (pull from log), ends w/”you just missed him” mix audio into next shot of prairie dog

a High Plains Film



a Doug Hawes-Davis
documentary

Randy preparing to shoot at benchrest
Steve (audio only), "he's on the left hand side of the hole pointin' down.  See him. Your gun barrell's right on him Randy.  Youre pointed right at him"

Camera & Sound
Drury Carr

Steve, ".......  What'r you shootin' at? " Randy, "The one in front."  Steve, "No, you're way off."  Randy, "I shot the one in front........... Randy, "Are we talkin'"  .......... Steve, "Right there.  Right there." Harley, "How can you miss it.  He's only like a hundred yards out." Steve, "Right there, he's standin' straight up on the side of the hole."  Randy, "Oh. a hundred yards."  Steve, "Yeah.  Get him."  Harley, "You know what he can't see him."  Randy, "I got it." (Continues through next visual and cg page)


Assistant Producer
Jennifer Ferenstein


shoots, dog explodes (out of focus) Steve exclaims, "Ohhh!  Look at the other one runnin'  (laughs)”  (V -  black) "Go to the right, go to the right.  There’s another shot just like it.”  
thunder audio starts as cg fades up

thunder audio


Varmints

still of thunder cloud, broken boulder on right side of shot

pan of huge prairie


dog eating grass, standing, foraging, standing, foraging, several times

Mrs. Robert Taylor "Pearl", Phillips County, Montana, " I don't think anything good about em. *  They are just simply terrible.  And I think we should have help gettin' rid of em.



zoom out from dog to huge town
ends near 01:19:03:16  - dogs barking audio

 Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, “.......The option for a * prairie dog if you want to get rid of him is either shoot him, poison him, or leave him to mother nature and let him die of disease or starvation

shoveling treated oats into dispenser, zoom out to guy wearing respirator
prairie dog skull mostly buried in dirt, still, then hands remove it and jaw from dirt
Dan Uresk, USDA, Rapid City, SD - *“We can poison prairie dogs using zinc phosphide at a, consistently at some where around a 95% reduction rate........We are really good at it.  We have that well perfected.


Mark Mason, Varmint Militia, “....... Not supposed to be a real plesant death.  Probably hurts a little more than one of these bullets.”

2nd gun shot only after Bobby/Al interview
close shot of dog exploding 

Varmint Hunters Assoc. - Janet, “It’s probably one of the more popular varmints because it’s not that expensive.  Hunters are welcomed into these areas because it is a nusance

steve looking through scope, shoots, harley, "Dead." Randy, "He's gone."  Steve, "See ya."  stands up, unloads,



Earl Hagen, Farmer, Reeder, North Dakota, “........... I can see a man losin pasture land, he don’t like them for that reason, but they’re kind of fun to watch.

dog leaves hole, walks slowly away, pushes nose through dirt, lies flat



Mike Fox, President, Intertribal Bison Cooperative, Game and Fish Agent, Fort Belknap, MT, ".....these guys, the prairie dogs have a right to be here, more so than the cattle


Pearls house at dusk
Mrs. Robert Taylor "Pearl", Phillips County, Montana, "They don't want us to kill em.  They think they're extinct.  They aren't extinct when there's millions of em.  And who wants em in the first place.  They're one critter that we just don't need."  

ferret peaking head out of burrow, drops in
Edwin Koss, Phillips County, MT - they're bringin in that damn black footed ferret * and there aint nothin good about him to look at and you can't see em cause he only comes out at night *  so what the hell good is he.  



cowboy on horseback riding away from camera on flat prairie
Jasper Carlton, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, ......we’re still talking about the myth of the american cowboy here.  You know.  * I mean why don’t we tell the truth about what the impact of grazing has had on the ecological health of our short grass and mixed grass prairies *  in the western states.  No one’s been willing to address that honestly


46 - Music - Incontinentals, “Bless the Meat” entire song
47 - V - 4:0:08:46 - close up of white bull in field, still
48 - V - 6:1:23:30 - driving by totally flat landscape w/fence row in foreground, typicaly phillips county scenery, cows enter scene
49 - V - 4:0:10:34 - cows crossing dirt road w/straight line of telephone poles in to the distance , suburban drives away from camera on gravel road

50 - **V - NA - 1:17:04:22 - 1:17:17:20 - people driving wagon trains
51 - Eileen Stukel, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks, Tape #9 - 0:24:40 - “......it goes back to just the * way the west was settled.  As people moved out, ** they removed the things that were in their way whether they were wolves or grizzly bears and prairie dogs were another obstacle to them doing what they wanted to do whether it was having a pasture just for their cattle to graze in or to plow it up for crops ......

8) V/A2 - 01:08:50:02 - 01:08:59:06
9) 01:09:14:06 - 01:09:56:23

55 - Mark Mason, Varmint Militia , Tape #17 - 0:18:50 - ......they call them prairie dogs because they bark, have a little yap.  But we like to call them prairie rodents.  You know everybody, I think the reason the animal cultists took em up as a cause is because they call them prairie dogs and it’s like a dog you know.  They’re not dogs.  They’re rodents

56 - Folks from Indiana - Old woman, Tape #3 - 0:09:08 - old woman, "They are of the rat family as a matter of fact.  They're rodents.  And you can tell the way they dig they have lice and stuff like that.  And it's a good idea, we never touch em.  We don't even get close to em if we can help it."

10) 01:10:20:04 - 01:11:41:28

59 - *V/A2 - 11:0:22:55 - older dog looking out of mound, very close, does a-ok sign (cut audio after a-ok sign
60 - **V - AGEX#1 - 3:12:19 - 3:21:20 - still of close up of hole, then pan to another hole
61 - ***V - NGFP - 01:50:21:04 - 01:50:29:03 - two dogs grooming and playing in dirt
62 - ****V - NGFP -01:53:03:01 - 01:53:11:15 - three dogs run in to burrow, then stand
63 - *****V - WYGF - 00:23:48:20 - 00:23:57:13 - badger walking around dog town
64 - Scott Seville, University of Wyoming - 2:1:24:26 - "........ There are some prairie dogs that have been peaking out of some of the burrows over here.  There's one right there. * So it is an active colony and pretty much all these holes are being used. *  You can see right over there there’s another hole ** that looks like it’s been pretty freshly dug.  
65 - 2:1:04:35 - For  a particular burrow you can have two or three or four or even five different entrance exits......... 66 - 2:1:05:15 - **Farther down in the burrow you know it'll go down maybe five ten fifteen meters depending on what kind of soil types they're digging through.  There'll be a widening that's kind of like a chamber  where prairie dogs will sleep at night, they'll descend to during the nighttime and therell be some kind of bedding material.  One of the things that they also seem to do in their burrow system is they keep them pretty clean........***
67 - 2:1:09:12  - ".......... You'll see them regularly grooming each other, pulling off fleas and ticks and cleaning each other.  And so they become very cooperative. *** Another way they cooperate is, you know, they're all out here feeding,**** but they're also very alert to any movement around them that might indicate a predator is approaching and so they give different calls warning each other a predator is approaching. Some studies have indicated they actually have a different call whether it be a terrestrial, a ground predator (end *****)  or something flying.  "  

11) V/A1  - 01:12:22:19 - 01:14:16:25
    V2 - 01:11:47:07 - 01:11:53:20

68 - V - UFWSPD - 01:15:07:23 - 01:15:19:22 - hawk flies over dog town
* start talking head
72 - **V - 3:0:30:33 - doggie cam through grasses, blue sky
73 - William Supernaugh, Superintendent, Badlands National Park, Tape #12 - 0:02:50 - “.... prairie dogs are what we refer to as a * keystone species.  Prairie dogs and prairie dog towns are a extremely important component of this whole prairie ecosystem...........
74 - William Supernaugh, Superintendent, Badlands National Park, Tape #12 - 0:10:00 - ** “.......if you lose the prairie dog, the whole ecosystem collapse, much like an arch.” (end**)

75 - *V - NDG&F#3 - 14:25:06 - 14:32:15 - moderate/slow pan of dog town on hillside
76 - **V1 USFSREG1 - 00:14:53:00 - 00:14:54:29 - close up of yellow prickly pear
77 - V2 - BNP - 13:37:16 - 13:40:02 - close shot of white flowers
78 - V3 - BNP - 13:26:20 - 13:28:24 -close shot of yellow flower
79 - V4 - BNP -13:16:04 - 13:17:29 - close shot of primrose
80 - V5 - BNP - 13:48:19 - 13:50:13 - very close shot of yellow flowers
81 - ***V1 - WYGF - 8:14:09 - 8:20:02 - close up of dog digging on top of burrow
82 - V2 - USFWSPUBDOM - 31:29:10 - 31:33:25 - Prairie dog eating grass
83 - Steven Forrest, Wildlife Biologist, Bozeman, Montana, Tape #15 - 1:05:00- “........Prairie dogs manipulate the grassland environment.  * They create something that wasn’t there before.  Something new.  It’s a three dimensional space........ It’s occupied by a number of ** species, far in excess of the number of species densities that occur outside the prairie dog towns.  *** They manipulate the soil.  They change the soil composition.  They change the vegetative composition.  They, in essence, prairie dogs and their activities, creates a unique ecosystem on the Great Plains.

84 - V* DAKPRO - 00:27:43:04 - 00:27:53:27 - antelope gets up and trots away, zoom out
85 - V** - WYGF - 25:34:15 - 25:38:29 - coyote  hunting rodents
86 - V1** WYGF - 29:59:28 - 30:02:00 - close shot of goldenn eagle flying
87 - V2** - WYGF - 0:42:06 - 30:45:15 - golden eagle flying lower over prairie
88 - V3** - WYGF - 21:00:10 - 21:07:07 - XCU of badger w/dirty face looking right at camera
89 - V4** - CMZ - 20:43:00 - 20:49:10 - badgers digging down pd hole
90 - V5** - WYGF - 21:26:16 - 21:35:06 - pan from prairie dog to badger on burrow
91 - Scott Seville, University of Wyoming, Tape #2 - 1:18:15 -...... alot of things tend to congregate around prairie dog colonies.  * Antelope.  When we walked up to this colony there were antelope lying right out in the middle of it (end *)
92 - 2:1:10:17 - " prairie dogs of course are predated on by alot of different animals.  Both aerial hawks, ** eagles, golden eagles, a variety of different hawks and also ground, terrestrial predators, foxes, coyotes, badgers will come into a prairie dog town and pretty much decimate the whole town very quickly.  They'll just dig right down through a burrow system and find them sleeping and feed on them right then and there
93 - 2:1:13:50 - “Yeah, they’re a real critical food resource.  and in fact there’s been some written about their importance (end**) as a human food resource.  Particularly native americans before european settlement.”

12) V/A1 - 01:15:29:18 - 01:16:11:15

99 - V* - NA - 01:10:31 - Map, “Range of the prairie dog by species”
100 - V2* (loop) NA - 01:10:33 - “Black tailed priarie dog”
101 - V** NA - 1:10:51:03 - 1:10:53:16 -“Total Range of Prairie Dogs” map
102 - Bob Luce, Non-game Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Tape #1 - 0:57:10 - "....... there are estimates and of course they can only be that that about 2% of the prairie dog range that once existed is still left.........57:30 - * We know that historically black tail covered pretty much all of the plains states through Kansas Nebraska, and into eastern Colorado, (end *) Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota, South Dakota. **  Probably that two percent is not acurate for the black tail, it's probably even less than that......... There are (end**) scattered prairie dog towns out there.  We don't even know whether they're viable over the long term

13) 01:18:19:06 - 01:19:07:20

113 - 8:1:42:37 - Kevin, “I don’t know if I want to answer that one.  You know, it’s back to the statistics and math and whose countin numbers and you and I know as weell as any that we can all make those say what we want them to say.”  pan to George, “You know, I don’t know whether those numbers are disputable or not.  It would be very hard to assume one way or another, especially from a historic basis.  At the same time, we have to be concerned with what we have here.  And I think we have a very good population of prarie dogs.  Well I’ll leave it at good.  Yeah, healthy, Thank you.”  

14) 01:20:03:22 - 01:21:33:20
V2 -
    #1 - (start at 01:20:48:28)  02:21:06:15 - 02:21:08:02
    #2 - 02:21:00:23 - 02:21:02:11

118 - Music - Incontinentals  - “Lawn Chair” (instrumental intro)
119 - V1 - SDTOUR - 00:43:19:15 - 00:43:32:05 - cowboys riding on prairie
120 - V2 - COMNG - 0:10:53 - cowboy herding Texas longhorns

121 - *start talking head after music fade out
122 - ** V - USFSNG - 00:07:26:11 - 00:07:30:05 - barb wire fences zigzaging across land
123 - Dan Uresk, Research Biologist, USDA, Rapid City, SD, Tape #13 - 0:26:50 - "Some of the people that I have talked to about prairie dogs, if one asks them, *  'are there some prairie dog colonies close by?' or ' have you seen prairie dog colonies around here that we can go visit?' And they'd say oh sure, they're over here or over there.  ** You go out there today and they're not over here or over there.   They're gone. (end **)  But they still believe there are prairie dogs there

124 - Earl Hagen, Farmer, Reeder, North Dakota, Tape #8 - 1:04:15 - “Bruce.  Have we got any prairie dogs on our land?  We did have some when, last year and a half or two we haven’t got any anymore.”  

125 - Kevin Fridley, SD Ag Dept., Tape #8, 1:38:00 - “..........there’s plenty of prairie dogs.  there is an equal balance.  There is excellent habitat for many other animals and insects

126 - Dan Uresk, Research Biologist, USDA, Rapid City, SD, Tape #13 - 0:28:10 - ".........  That was probably true up to a point.  But we're beyond that point now.  We're down to critical mass."  

15)  01:21:47:01 - 01:28:12:25
V2 - (start at 01:22:37:20)  02:19:29:02 - 02:19:39:07

127 - V/A - WYGF - 16:07:12 - 16:23:01 - dog w/yellow flowers on green prairie grasses

128 - V1* - NA - 01:08:58:19 - 01:09:01:20 - bison running down hillside
129 - V2* - NA - 1:10:13:10 - 1:10:14:26 - prairie dogs in grass (several shots)
130 - V3* - NA - 01:08:48:19 - 01:08:51:05 - bison grazing on hillside
131 - V4* - NA - 1:11:19:05 - 1:11:24:25 - dog town
132 - V5* - NA - 1:11:49:09 - 1:11:36:13  - two dogs looking out of hole
133 - V** - UWTV - 55:12:05 - 55:18:08 - flying low over ground w/antelope running
134 - V2** - BNP - 11:37:28 - 11:41:04  - herd of mule deer on prairie running from camera
135 - Jon Sharps, Box Elder, SD  (driving truck)  Tape #10 - 0:23:12 -"......... Historically the bison free roamed this whole area from Canada down to Texas, ......... * wherever the black tailed prairie dogs were found then you found bison......136 - 32:12 - There was some 5-8 billion prairie dogs as an estimate that were living throughout the great plains.......137 - 24:12 - they evolved with this ecosystem as did the (end *) bison, as did the grizzly bear, the roosevelt elk, which is gone now. **  The audubon sheep which is gone.  Antelope were out here.  There were some deer in the woody draws.  You know it was a (end **)  solid functioning ecosystem from Canada to Mexico

429 - V -DAKPRO - 10:14:29 - 10:17:19 - bison locking horns
430 - V - SDTOUR - 17:45:05 - 17:55:03 - buffalo herd running near woody draw
139 - V** - USFWSPUBDOM - 22:31:21 - 22:38:29 - pan of still photo from pre-dust bowl farm
140 - still photo of Merriam
141 - V*** - COMNG - pan/zoom in of still from early farm
142 - V**** - NA - 1:17:36:03 - 1:17:38:05  - “Department of Agriculture, bureau of biological survey, control methods research”  (loop 3 times)
143 - V***** NA - 1:11:49:09 - 1:11:52:02 - dog in hole
144 - V2***** NA - 1:11:01:22 - 1:11:14:04 - couple of shots of prairie dogs
145 - Craig Knowles, Grassland Ecologist, Boulder, Montana, Tape #16 - 0:41:20 - .......* when the bison were eliminated, the prairie dogs declined substantially
146 - 16:0:42:00 - ....... there’s also good evidence that when homesteaders hit the great plains and (end*) brought cattle in and set up homes that prairie dogs increased. ** Somewhere in the early 1900s before poisoning became a factor, a man by the name of C. Hart Merriam made a trip into the Great Plains on a train and he would get off this train and make excursions out into the prairie on horse and buggy or something and interview homesteaders and find out what their problems were and*** he was setting up what was called the biological survey **** at that time which later became the Fish and Wildlife Service and the homesteaders all told him that there were no prairie dogs here when they came and now they’re all around their homes
147 - 16:1:03:32 - ***** “And then later on in the 1920’s I believe it was one of the people for the biological survey came out and did some study on prairie dogs......and concluded that prairie dogs ate (end *****) 90% of the vegetation and if we kill all the prairie dogs we’ll have tons more vegetation for cows to eat and that’s when, after that study came out is when the government got into poisoning prairie dogs in a big way.

148 - A1 - from “My Father’s Garden” (loop)(fade out as music starts)(fade up for last several cuts
149 - NA - 01:00:05:18 - 01:00:19:18  “Last Days of the Prairie Dog”
150 - NA - 1:00:21:24 - 1:00:30:24
151 - A2 - Ned Mudd, “If I Had My Way” (Instrumental mix)
152 - NA - 1:00:38:07 - 01:00:44:08
153 - NA - 01:00:47:13 - 01:00:54:04
154 - NA - 01:00:59:13 - 01:01:22:01
155 - NA - 1:02:10:20 - 1:02:14:19
156 - NA - 1:02:17:25 - 1:03:14:14
157 - NA - 1:03:22:06 - 1:04:07:06
158 - NA - 1:04:20:08 - 1:04:23:04
159 - NA - 1:05:29:13 - 1:05:54:13
160 - NA - 1:04:49:06 - 1:04:53:24
161 - NA - 1:04:57:04 - 1:05:27:27
162 - NA - 1:05:54:20 - 1:05:57:19
163 - NA - 1:07:59:09 - 1:08:00:13 (loop - 2nd time ends at 1:08:03:25

16) 01:28:37:25 - 01:29:45:25
    V2 - 01:28:27:22 - 01:28:37:01 (cover 171)

169 - *V - NA -1:18:14:25 - 1:18:16:13 - sign on building “US Biological Survey Bait Mixing Station”
170 - V - NA -1:18:18:03 - 1:18:30:16 - truck sitting in bay at station, pulls out with bags of poisoned grain
171 - V - NA - 1:26:47:02 - 1:26:56:12  - horseback riders spreading grain
172 - V - NA -1:23:57:22 - 1:24:00:09 - hillside covered with “clean up crew”
173 - V - NA - 1:27:09:17 - 1:27:21:12 - field covered with dead prairie dogs, guy walks among them
174 - V - NA -1:28:27:21 - 1:28:37:03 - pan of mountain valley
175 - Craig Knowles, Grassland Ecologist, Boulder, Montana, Tape #16 - 0:39:20 - .....  We took the two most successful mammalian species on the Great Plains and as a matter of government programs * they were targeted for extirpation.  And both of those programs came very close to achieving their goals.  Bison were reduced down to less than a 1000 individuals and prairie dogs were reduced to less than a million acres on the entire great plains.”
176 - Craig Knowles, Grassland Ecologist, Boulder, Montana, Tape #16 - 0:40:00  - ...... the purpose of eliminating the bison was a means of bringing the indian tribes under control by eliminating their food supply.  And the prairie dogs was simply a government program to provide more forage for cattle.  And you could argue that it really had no implications in providing forage for cattle.  That’s another story.

17) 01:30:14:22 - 01:30:29:02

179 - Kevin Fridley, SD Department of Agriculture, Tape #8 - 1:41:00 -, “........You get prairie dogs in that ecosystem or on that grass it can take 90% of the forage base away in a particular area.  It digs holes.  You walk through there you break your leg or sprain your ankle.

18) 01:31:39:10 - 01:33:29:07 (cut A1 after music starts)

186 - * V - SDTOUR - 00:18:44:12 - 00:18:53:19 - huge buffalo herd, sunny, on green prairie 
187 - V - SDTOUR - 00:19:18:00 - 00:19:26:15 - massive buffalo stampede 
188 - V - SDTOUR - 00:18:17:16 - 00:18:26:05 - buffalo herd stampede on brown prairie, dusty
189 - Scott Seville, University of Wyoming, Tape #2 - 1:20:00 ........., if prairie dogs are directly competing with cattle, how could the plains have supported so many bison * when prairie dogs were so numerous and widely distributed before european settlement.  

190 - Jon Sharps, Box Elder, SD  Tape #10 - 0:40:30 - ........bison, when they used to come through here in great numbers.  They kind of ravage and area and just trash it.  And prairie dogs love it and they be right in there and they expand and they can keep the grasses down for a while and then the * bison go someplace else next time when they came through and the prairie dogs would move over there.  And they’d keep moving around like that.

190 - *V - WWFE - still of topo map “Fort Belknap Indian Reservation”
191 - **V - 7:0:00:00 - Bison on Snake Butte, walking down hill, zoom out (start after dropout)
192 - Mike Fox, President, Intertribal Bison Cooperative, Game and Fish Agent, Fort Belknap, MT, Tape #7 - 1:20:10 - *"...... we've probably got close to 350,000 useable acres for buffalo habitat and * I'd like to see buffalo on every bit of it and get rid of the cows.  ** Ranchers get a little nervous when I say that but uh, the buffalo have adapted to this for thousands and thousands of years and they're perfectly suited to it.  It's not like a domestic cow where you gotta babysit and tend it 12 months out of the year

193 - V/A2 - MTFWP - 00:07:15:01 - 00:07:21:21

194 - Mike Fox, President, Intertribal Bison Cooperative, Game and Fish Agent, Fort Belknap, MT, Tape #7 - 1:22:20 ..........  But what we want to do is we don't want to displace any tribal ranchers.  We want em to convert to buffalo

195 - Music - Aaron Parret, “Muddy Waters” break (fade up during Mike’s comments)
196 - V - SDTOUR - 00:20:33:17 - 00:20:39:00 - cowboy on horse herding buffalo on fall prairie 
197 - V - SDTOUR - 18:56:03 - 19:14:22  - cowboy herding buffalo on fall prairie 

19) 01:34:27:05 - 01:34:45:21

205 - Mike Fox, President, Intertribal Bison Cooperative, Game and Fish Agent, Fort Belknap, MT, Tape #7 - 1:15:38 - "........ you see the short grass areas where the prairie dog colonies are. *  OK the rancher looks at that as those prairie dogs are stealing from my cows.  And it's just the opposite.  Those prairie dogs create ideal conditions that attract cows * to their prairie dog colonies

20) 01:35:06:08 - 01:35:52:23

209 - *V - AGEX#2  - 22:56:16 - 23:03:21 - cows on monoculture grassland walking
210 - Craig Knowles, Grassland Ecologist, Boulder, Montana, Tape #16 - 1:01:00 -.......... I’ve asked ranchers that, just kind of to get them excited, ‘If prairie dogs are so bad, why do their cows like them so much and they all know where their cattle stay during the summertime. * On prairie dog towns. The ranchers all know that.  And they don’t have a very good response to that question.”  

211 - Edwin Koss, Phillips County, MT, Tape #6 - 1:14:33 - ".......  There's a little dog town just by my house.  I don't have very many of em on my place.  But theyre all around there.  And we have shot that and I invite every one in the world to come and shoot it and it's right on the road.  Well it's gettin' bigger.  I'm gonna have to poison it again or they gonna take over."  

21) 01:38:06:16 - 01:39:05:12
    V2 -
    1) 01:37:54:10 - 01:38:01:15  (start at 01:38:22:02)
    2) 01:34:49:15 - 01:34:59:13  (start at 01:38:31:23)
    3) 01:35:19:26 - 01:35:26:13
    4) 01:36:53:03 - 01:36:57:23

215 - *V - AGEX#1 - 11:29:04 - 11:50:23 - dog foraging/walking in very tall green grass
216 - **A/V - AGEX#2 -18:06:19 - 18:18:18  - pan from cows close up to prairie dogs running
217 - Dan Uresk, Research Biologist, USDA, Rapid City, SD, Tape #13 - 0:38:31 - "On a prairie dog town, the production according to the measurements we have collected, there is a four to seven percent decrease in the amount of forage available to the livestock.  With this decreased four to seven percent in forage production, this is offset by the nutrient quality.  * The nutrients in the forage on prairie dog towns is greater than off prairie dog towns.  As a result of this increased forage, digestability and increased protein and other nutrients, this offsets that loss for livestock production. **  Cattle grazing on prairie dog towns have essentially the same weight gains as those off of prairie dog towns even though that production is four to seven percent lower."

22) 01:40:42:09 - 01:41:33:29

228 - Mark Mason, Varmint Militia , Tape #17 - 0:16:53 - ...........  I found the skeleton of a miniature horse on that hill two years ago.  I’ve got the head at home.  But, you can see the femur, no the tib fib, that’s right, tibia fibia, you know, it’s broken right where the horse fell.  You know, he broke his leg in a prairie dog hole and died.  And nobody knew it because he was back a ways.  I saw it cause I was scopin it with a high power, and uh, you know, that’s got to be a $5000 horse, minature pony.  This indian guy over here, Chief uh, oh I forgot his last name now.  He raises them, or used to.  Got a teepee set up over there.  Got all sorts of indian stuff going on over there all the time.  But, I know this year a lady’s horse stepped in a hole and fell and killed her.

23) 01:40:11:03 - 01:40:42:08
    V2 - 01:40:00:20 - 01:40:13:12 (start at 01:41:24:22)

225 - *V - NA - 1:09:02:06 - 1:09:07:20 - horseback rider running down hill austensibly steps in prairie dog hole and tumbles over, then close shot of gun putting horse down
226 - Jon Sharps, Box Elder, SD, Tape #10 - 1:23:00 - ...... its easy to perpetuate the myth that cattle and horses break their legs in prairie dog towns because John Wayne probably did a movie showing that.  * But in fact I’ve never known it to happen and I’ve never known a rancher that knows of it actually happening.  

227 - Bob Hordorff, Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Biologist, Tape #13 - 1:12:09 - "........ I hear of it all the time, but you don't see very many dead cows laying on prairie dog towns.  I guess that's the bottom line."  

24) 01:41:44:27 - 01:42:05:19
V2 - 01:34:18:03 - 01:34:24:23 (start at 01:41:51:05)

231 - Bob Luce, Non-game Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Tape #1 - 1:00:23 - "....... it doesn't effect livestock in terms of the numbers you can run or the production of them by having prairie dogs there.  * And I think there's scientific evidence to that effect, but I don't know that it's convinced alot of people.  Prairie dog control, particularly in the black tailed range, in Wyoming still takes place, extensively."  

25) 01:44:05:14 - 01:45:37:18

241 - V/A1 - MTAGEX2 - 01:23:18:25 - 01:24:16:24

242 - * A/V - BNP - 10:49:02 - 10:52:02 - rattlesnake coiled next to sage
243 - V - WYGF - (start at 00:28:43:23) - fox pup walking curiously, another comes out of den
244 - Rod Litzel, Supervisor, Johnson County Weed and Pest District, Tape #3 - 1:21:16 -......like any type of fumigant, you're libel to get some non-targets that might be down in the hole.  A rattlesnake, possibly a badger, birds, burrowing birds, whatever, you stand a chance of getting some of those."

245 - A/V - NDGF#1 - 00:37:28:05 - 00:37:36:13 - burrowing owl pops up from ground at very close range, looking right at camera

246 - Rod Litzel, Supervisor, Johnson County Weed and Pest District , Tape #3 - 1:27:30 - "....It's just like weed control in a sense.  you never can guarantee you're gonna get 100%.  Prairie dogs are the same way.  You just.  You think you've got em whipped and here they are again.  They're back.  ........."  

26) 01:46:02:01 - 01:46:34:24
    V2/A2 - (reduce volume)
    1) 01:42:05:22 - 01:42:09:13 (start at 01:46:17:13)
    2) 01:42:17:09 - 01:42:29:09 (end at 01:46:33:05)

252 - Greg Schenbeck, Nebraska National Forest, Tape #14 - 0:31:15 - “.......... if I treat prairie dogs today, do I get a return in livestock forage, the answer is no, but you have look down the road further to get a bigger picture as to what the economics are associated with prairie dogs.  

254 - Steven Forrest, Wildlife Biologist, Bozeman, Montana, Tape #15 - 1:23:30 - “........ we documented that 10 million dollars was spent between 1983 and 1993 by public agencies on prairie dog poisoning.  Now presumably these were costs not covered by private lesees or private landowners......so difficult to get a handle on the extent of the subsidy, but certainly it exists.”  

27) 01:47:19:28 - 01:47:41:21

259 - *V - AGEX#1 -1:06:34:07 - 1:06:43:00  - label, “Precations hazards to humans and domestic animals.......keep away from humans....”
260 - Rod Litzel, Supervisor, Johnson County Weed and Pest District, Tape #3 - 1:19:49 - "We just sell the product to the landowner.  And they come in and we offer a cost-share assistance on the chemical
261 - * Rod Litzel, Supervisor, Johnson County Weed and Pest District, Tape #3 - 1:20:16 - ".......  These products go through years of testing before they're allowed to be used on the open market like that............. * the way it's applied and if it's applied correctly, you hardly ever see any secondary poisoning

28) 01:49:06:28 - 01:50:15:12
V2 - 01:43:25:16 - 01:43:38:23 (start at 01:49:23:19)

267 - A/V - AGEX#1 - 1:13:37:02 - 1:13:40:01 - camera on ground, grain thrown on ground

268 - *V - JS#1 -00:27:59:04-00:28:03:23 - grain on ground, close up
269 - **V - JS#1 - 40:49:07 - 41:00:26 - Horned lark eating grain (image stabalizer)
270 - Don Fryda, Animal Damage Control, Control Specialist, Tape #14 - 1:18:00 - “.....The zinc phosphide oats that we use for prairie dog control is off color.  It is dark.  And it is, the prairie dog is conditioned to smell for eating this.  And once he, uh, looks for this type of kernel and is attracted to the smell of zinc phosphide oats.  * And the dark color, once you have thrown it in the dirt, * uh, birds, you can’t hardly see that type of kernel. ** It blends into the soil really well. Works pretty good that way.  We have very very little non-target kill with this method.”  

271 - Bob Luce, Non-game Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Tape #1 - 1:05:36 - ".......there's no doubt some direct impact.  We certainly know that small predators such as the swift fox and the black footed ferret can pick up secondary poisoning”

272 - Don Fryda, Animal Damage Control, Control Specialist, Tape #14 - 1:25:28 - ........ Not trying to cause a problem, just trying to manage one a little bit. (eats oat)”

29) 01:39:29:14 - 01:39:56:09  (overlap V w/next shot)
220 - Music - Incontinentals “Sue” intro
221 - V - 13:1:50:00 - close shot of cattle running through dusty feedlot

30) 01:50:33:06 - 01:50:56:11

275 - *V - USFSNG - 25:03:09 - 25:06:12 - morons standing around three wheelers
276 - V - USFSNG - 23:17:14 - 23:26:11 - army of three wheelers driving along fence row, then spreading out in to basin
277 - V - USFSNG -24:56:09 - 25:01:02 - army of three wheelers on prairie, wide angle
278 - Eileen Stukel, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks, Tape #9 - 0:17:00 - “......there was very intensive prairie dog erradication program in the 70s * and that reduced the population down to what we think is a fairly constant level of about 200 to 250 thousand acres in South Dakota.  We’re not too concerned that they’re in danger of just fizzling out in South Dakota.  They’re a very resilient species..

31) 01:51:26:13 - 01:55:34:27 (end V, fade out A2)

282 - *V - UWTV -55:44:20 - 55:51:00 - flying low, crests over hilltop then plains
283 - **V - USFWSDOGS - 1:19:09:00 - 1:19:15:23 - wide angle of dog town on large area 
284 - ***A2/V - AGEX#1 - 21:15:18 - 21:19:21 - dog, does double aok sign
285 - Jasper Carlton, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, Tape #18 - 0:05:45 -........  You’ve got to put it in historical perspective.  We don’t know exactly what we had historically, ........ * but the general estimate is that probably 20 percent of the short grass and mixed grass prairie was occupied by prairie dogs.  Now we’re down to just one or two million acres of prairie dog left in the entire great plains ** and the scientists are estimating that we are losing aproximately 80,000 acres a year.  Well it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that within the next three to four years, the prairie dog is going to become biologically threatened and endangered. *** The question we have to ask is, shouldn’t we be taking steps now, before the prairie dog becomes in more serious shape than it is, and then is followed by a wave of secondary extinctions by so many other  species

286 - *V - CMZ - 20:36:00 - zoom in from prairie to ferret at mid range, standing on burrow, looking, then runs away from burrow, stops several times
287 - **V - CMZ - 03:00:00 - looks at camera, runs toward camera, stops, drops into another hole
288 - ***V - NDGF#1 - 30:12:08 - 30:19:27 - close up of burrowing owl looking toward camera, eating something
289 - V - NDGF#1 - 38:53:13 - 39:01:26  - burrowing owl flies out of shot
290 - V - MTFWP -11:23:29 - 11:35:20 - swift fox running on prairie
291 - V - MTFWP -10:59:29 - 11:08:20 - mountain plover running on short grass prairie at night
292 - ****V - NDGF#2 - 1:01:48:09 - 1:01:54:03 - four young burrowing owls playing around pd mound, one runs and drops into hole 
293 - Bob Luce, Non-game Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Tape #1 - 0:56:00 - A Keystone species is theoretically a species that provides habitat so that the others can exist there.  * And there are some direct correlations of some species.  Obviously the black footed ferret is the classic example because as I said without prairie dogs you don’t have black footed ferrets.  because not only is the prairie dog the primary food source, but it also provides the underground burrows for the ferrets to live in.   There are a (end */**, start ***) number of other bird species and probably a few mammal species that maybe are not completely dependent on prairie dog towns, but are generally of higher densities or are at least partially dependent on them for food sources.  Some of the more common ones and not surprisingly are of state and federal interest are swift fox, burrowing owl, mountain plover as examples of the animals that although the exist outside the prairie dog town, may be strongly dependent upon them. Because of the way that the prairie dogs **** alter the habitat.  The fact that they use the abandoned burrows of the prairie dog."  

294 - *V - USFWSDOGS - 1:21:44:12 - 1:21:48:29 - feruginous hawk flying, pan down to dog town
295 - Jasper Carlton, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, Tape #18 - 0:01:11 - “.......The major prey base of the ferriginous hawk east of the continental divide is the black tailed prairie dog * so it’s no,  it should come as no surprise to anybody, that as the prairie dog ecosystem has continued to decline.......... so we have also observed and documented a decline in feruginous hawks.  WE’re now down to probably less than 10,000 feruginous adult hawks in the Great Plains of the United States.  So it’s also headed for the endangered species act if something’s not done for the prairie dog ecosystem.”

296 - Dan Uresk, Research Biologist, USDA, Rapid City, SD, Tape #13 - 0:10:33 - "The land base is there to protect the species, but I'm not sure if management or the people will allow this.  That enters into the political realm of things.  I have no idea how it will turn out.  If it continues on its present road, prairie dogs will decrease.  We can see that.

297 - Music - Incontinentals “My Favorite Saint”
298 - Pennsylvania Shooters, Tape #4 - 1:39:25 - steve standing and randy sitting looking through binocs.  Randy, "There he is right there.  There he is."  Randy swivels.  STeve, "Oh my god he's only 25 yards out."  camera moves in, gets behind randy, zooms in on dog, RAndy, "Got em."  shoots, dog explodes, steve laughs

299 - V only - Pennsylvania Shooters, Tape #4 - 1:41:13 - Randy standing w/exploded dog, drops it  
300 - V only - Tape #4 - 1:41:54 - zooms in on exploded dog

31.5) 01:55:59:03 - 01:59:24:24 (overlap 1st video for 4 sec. 6 frames approx)

fade out music
303 - **V - 1:24:48 - slow pan down wall of past “Varmint Hunter” framed magazine covers
304 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 0:55:14 - * “Varmint hunting is basically the hunting of animals, not for trophy, not for meat and not by season.  Any animal can be a varmint at any given time.  Its a pest.  Its a nusance.  This can be, can actually even be some of your big game animals like deer and such.  But ** mostly we limit it to prairie dogs, coyotes, fox crow, woodchuck.
305 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 0:56:00 -..... ** Anyplace you go to the country, there’s usually a varmint you can shoot.”

306 - Mary Jennings, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tape #2 - 0:52:08 -   I don't think that there is an animal on earth that i would view as being just a varmint and we're doing ourselves a favor by getting rid of them.  They all seem to serve some sort of a function, maybe we don't know what that function is, but I also get a little philosophical and think that everything probably has an innate right to be here."

307 - *V -01:57:01 - 02:03:24 - lewis shooting with no shirt on, turns and smiles at camera in slow mo
308 - Eileen Stukel, South Dakota Game Fish and Parks, Tape #9 - 0:26:42 - “It’s another use of prairie dogs.  * Alot of people come to south dakota and figures that I have seen show that prairie dog shooting can generate as much as 3.2 million dollars a year to the economy.

309 - *V - 4:0:23:42 - shiny suburban driving across dog town
310 - V - 5:1:10:42 - five dumb asses posing w/guns, zoom out from Bobby
311 - Pat Ellinghouse, Meco Custom Firearms, Billings, Montana, Tape #3 - 1:53:50 - "........ I have lots of customers on the east coast. * Georgia, Kentucky, New York, they all come out here.  Alot of them are businessmen that make treks out here twice three times a year, just to * shoot prairie dogs."  

319 - Old folks from Indiana, Tape #2 - 1:55:24 - guns leaning on RV (*), 1:56:10 - old woman, "I shot 43 today and missed 11."  old man, "How many did Rodney get though?" old woman, "About 75, he said. I think. And I don't know how many we got, but it was fun."  old man interrupting, pointing to handgun,"This is protection from a rattlesnake.  If you're on the grass, watch for rattlesnakes." old woman, "But it was fun to go out and shoot prairie dogs.  We came from Indiana."  old man, "I already told them that."  old woman, "Oh you did.  And that's why we come.  We come almost every year to shoot prairie dogs”

320 - *V - 9:1:33:53 - zoom out from close up on prairie dog on “Varmint Hunter” magazine on wall
321 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 1:00:00 - “......  * We have more people involved in it all the time because of less shooting oportunities in their home area. *  They seem to be gravitating towards the central states, the northern plains areas to shoot prairie dogs because there are so much fewer shooting opportunities in their home areas.

322 - Old folks from Indiana on Thunder Basin National Grassland, Tape #2 - 1:57:36 - old woman, "....... it's just nice and relaxing.  And you can appreciate gods handiwork out here."  

323 - A - 4:0:43:24 - randy shoots w/steve sighting
324 - V - AAV -  2:42:08 - 2:44:24 - extremely close shot, dog rolls over and wriths around 

32) 02:01:25:20 - 02:03:58:26

334 - * V1 - 4:1:07:32 - al and bobby walking w/guns on dog town, burrows in distance
335 - A/V2 - 4:0:30:40 - Booby shoots
336 - A/V3 - 4:0:34:19 - Bobby/ very close up, shoots
** TH
337 - ***A/V1 - 1:33:19 - XCU of hand reloading rifle, zoom back to camo dude
338 - A/V2 - 1:34:35 - Mike shooting in camo chair of benchrest, slight zoom in
339 - Mike Fox, President, Intertribal Bison Cooperative, Game and Fish Agent, Fort Belknap, MT, Tape #7 - 1:08:59 - "......... From 1992, we had 24 thousand acres of prairie dogs and during that time we also had 500 shooters,  * from 92, 93, 94, 95,  for four years in a row.  And then when we remapped in 1996, we found ** that we went from 24 thousand acres down to 11 thousand acres of prairie dogs.  ***  So nobody can argue with me to say whether recreational shooting.  Alot of people say  that it does not and you cant effect the population by shooting alone, but (*** end) I can show you different.  It does have a huge impact on it."

340 - *V1 - 17:0:29:03 - CU on camo dude at benchrest, shoots (end as pulls trigger)
341 - V2 - AAV -3:53:00 - 3:54:10 - mid range, varmint explodes and shoots into air 
342 - Greg Schenbeck, Nebraska National Forest, Tape #14 - 0:46:12 - Shooting even at fairly high densities has had very minimal if even noticible impact * on prairie dog populations.........343 - Now that’s the impact of shooting on prairie dogs.  We have other wildlife that occurs in prairie dog colonies.  Yes I have observed other non-target species being shot from prairie dog shooting.  Is it significant?  I can’t answer that.

344 - Tape #5 - 0:47:04 - close up of steve walking fence line, standing and looking through scope, zoom in towards mound, randy shoots from out of shot, dust flies, owl flies away  

345 - Bob Luce, Non-game Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Tape #1 - 1:10:20 - " ..........persistent shooting can significantly affect a population, but the prairie dog learns.  When they see vehicles pull up.  When they hear shooting.  They hit the deck and stay down.

346 - A/V - USFWSDOGS - 1:15:28:05 - 1:15:43:24 - XCU of prairie dog head in hole looking around
347 - A2 - 17:00:01:32 - ricochet gunshot audio (use two different shots/alternate 3 times)

348 - Mark Mason, Varmint Militia, 17: 0:55:55 -  “....... when I first found this property about two years ago, I came out here in my truck and drove this for about two hours and shot 87 dogs with my rimfire.  Just driving the perimiter and working my way in.  They were dumb dogs.  They’d never been shot before and that was the most I’d ever shot in one sitting.”

33) 02:04:50:14 - 02:07:06:28

351 - *V - AAV - 2:55:19 - 3:00:15 - several exploding dog shots 
352 - V - AAV - 1:17:26 - 1:24:13 - several more exploding dogs
353 - **A/V - USFWSDOGS - 1:09:56:27 - 1:10:06:16 - zoom in to pd eyes looking just over top of mound
354 - Steven Forrest, Wildlife Biologist, Bozeman, Montana, Tape #15 - 0:46:43 -........shooters are unlikely to be able to get that very last prairie dog in terms of total extinction on a given colony.  But that’s not, I think, is not the * issue
355 - Steven Forrest, Wildlife Biologist, Bozeman, Montana, Tape #15 - 0:45:43 - “ we simply don’t know what going in and randomly removing individuals out of that structure has on their behavior.  Certainly when you keep prairie dogs down in their burrows afraid ** all the time so that they don’t have an opportunity to participate in the social interactions that are necessary for their species.  It’s got to have an effect on their population dynamics overall

356 - A/V - 17:1:28:53 - Mark, “Jim.  Hey Jim. (yelling)”  “What?”  Mark, “Just to the left of that little building there’s a family of them over there.”  Jim, “OK”  (shots)  Mark, “A cute little son and a daughter and the mother’s watching them play. (laughs)”  pan to mark shooting from kneeling

357 - *V - AAV - 1:24:17 - 1:32:17 - shoots two in one shot, one scrambles around the ground
358 - V - AAV - 00:02:46 - close shot of dog flying into air, drops down and wriths a bit 359 - Varmint Militia, Tape #17 - 1:20:00 - Mark, “.......we have the two pup club, well actually the three pup club, every body shoots two at a time, but we have the three pup, four pup, five pup and * six pup clubs.  And if you shoot six pups with one shot you get one of our little buttons you know.”

360 - *V - AAV - 2:50:29 - 2:55:16 - dog on fence row explodes in* slow mo 
361 - V - AAV - 3:00:19 - 3:02:24 - dog explodes and flies left 
362 - Mary Jennings, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tape #2 - 0:51:21 - "........ it devastates its social structure, that would be my personal feeling, I'm sure they get on with life at some point and find new mates (zooms back to Mary)  or new family units but I'm sure it's quite destructive.  They seem to have a very tight knit family unit and for one animal to see all of their young killed in one shot * or for the young to witness a sibling or parent killed has got to be difficult for them to deal with.  That might be heresy in todays world to give human attributes to animals, but there is more and more research being done (snoopy barking) that indicates that they do have social bonds and emotional ties that perhaps we havent been aware of to date."  (pets snoopy)

363 - *V - 3:1:49:45 - fast zoom out from exploding dog on butt of gun to entire gun
364 - Pat Ellinghouse, Meco Custom Firearms, Billings, Montana - Tape #3 - 1:52:52 - "........ there's a natural life cycle to everything.  I mean sooner or later they're going to die anyway."  
365 - Pat Ellinghouse, Meco Custom Firearms, Billings, Montana, Tape #3 - 1:50:49 - "........ * So, I've been shootin' em for quite a while.  Just seems like a natural progression.  Everybody now.  All the * major manufacutures are building varmint rifles."

34) 02:07:24:08 - 02:08:07:14 (overlap 1st few frames of video)

368 - **V - 4:0:05:32 - close up on "heaven for the shooters" zoom out to Pat posing
369 - ***V - 4:0:00:07 - guns leaning on counter, hand-held pan
370 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 0:56:00  -..... a varmint gun is one that is extremely accurate, extremely high powered and has a long distance
371 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 1:05:42 - ** “......... to us, the girls in the office, it’s like pieces of jewelry.  We’re very excited when someone brings in a new gun.  And it has to be a good shooter, but we also ** like them to look pretty.  And we get them in all *** colors, some of the stocks are kind of neat, some of them are painted and some of the are unusual synthetics.  That’s kind of neat to get to see all the different guns.  We get to see alot of them during the jamboree.  *** Some beautiful guns that are 3, 4  thousand dollars, just gorgeous guns, but number one is they’ve got to shoot.  They’ve got to shoot well.”  

35) 02:09:07:17 - 02:09:16:24

375 - A/V - 4:1:49:30 - Randy shoots, "Pulled him right out of the hole (laughs)" Steve, "See ya."

36) 02:09:51:15 - 02:12:24:18

378 - 17:0:47:46 - camo dude, “.....Used to do big game, you know deer and elk and stuff like that, but it’s just too much work.  Heavy.  Messy.”

379 - Jon Sharps, Box Elder, SD  (driving truck)  Tape #10 - 0:28:46 - .......I don't know why people would want to shoot something that they don't eat.  Why do you want to kill something just  to prove that you're a good shot?  That's what targets are for.   Stick a target out there.

380 - Jeff Hoffman, Black Hills Ammunition, Rapid City, SD, Tape #12 - 1:06:50 - “.........  Shooting paper is very grattifying when you’re shooting for that precision, but you certainly get a more immediate reward when you see that dog go flying at 300 yards that you’ve just connected on in a 10 mile an hour crosswind.”  

381 - *17:1:16:05 - close shot of blood-soaked dog and hand w/cigarette moving it around
382 - 17:1:14:00 - Mike walking toward hole “Dead dog.  This is a 600 yard shot.  He’s in the hole. (reaches in and pulls out dog)” Oliver, “Did pretty good.  Right through the neck.  Well there’s the bullet right there.  You gotta be kiddin me. (pulls bullet out of dog) Ha. You’re not going to believe this. take it apart, is it a vmax or a soft point.  Got him right there.  *  you know what it must have done is it hit the dirt and stuck to him.  That’s amazing.”  Mark, “That was a heart shot too.  Look at how much blood.  Man, we gotta frame that bullet.”  “That one’s going home.” (picks up dog) Mark, “Man that’s the wildest thing I’ve ever seen.”  red neck, “That’s every bit of 600 yards.”  Mark, “Yeah that’s 600 yards.”  Mark, “Good shooting brother Mike.”  (shake hands)

37) 02:13:21:15 - 02:13:36:27

386 - Jeff Hoffman, Black Hills Ammunition, Rapid City, SD, Tape #12 - 0:58:30 - “.......The type of people that look down their nose at shooting anything under about 300 yards perfer like a 220 swift or a 22, 250, but for me I go for volume.”  

38) 02:14:24:21 - 02:15:21:13

391 - *V - 17:1:46:11 - pin, “I explode dogs,” still
392 - **V - AAV - 4:38:07 - 4:45:28 - slow mo exploding dog
393 - Mark Mason, Varmint Militia , Tape #17 - 0:15:43 - ........ And that’s why I wear this button, says I explode dogs. * Cause you hit them at you know thirty five hundred  feet per second with that 22 caliber bullet with the balistic tip on those things and the energy just goes perpindicular to the line and when it hits, it just blows them up..........394 - Instant kills.  I mean you talk about humane kills.  These bullets’ll do it.”  

395 - A - 4:0:31:44  -  2nd gun shot only after Bobby/Al interview
396 - V - AAV - 4:04:24 - 4:14:02 - shoots dog, which then wriths in blood

397 - Andrea Lococo, Fund for Animals, Jackson, WY, Tape #1 - 0:05:48 - " its pretty shocking uh, i think that as we approach the 21st century that there are still people in our society who derive immense pleasure from blowing animals to bits.  i mean this is blood sport at its worst  Its uh gratuitous killing for kicks.

398 - Mark Mason, Varmint Militia, Tape #17 - 1:02:10  - ....... it all boils down to the fact that they want everybody eating tofu and they start by saying don’t kill, you know, you’re just doing it because of the bloodlust.  You know, we just do this because we love to see the blood.  Well it’s true.  We love to see em blow up.  

39) 02:15:38:16 - 02:16:36:08

399 - * V - MTFWP - 10:38:05 - 10:42:02 - two dogs at hole, kiss
400 - Andrea Lococo, Fund for Animals, Jackson, WY, Tape #1 0:07:32 -....... the problem doesn't lie so much with animals it lies with us.  either we haven't taken the time to notice that these are other individuals or our sensibilites are too dull * to notice 401 - ........and so what we have tried  to  um communicate to peopel is that animals are indiviuals that they have a welfare that is as important to them as our welfare is to us. "

402 - A/V -USFWSDOGS - 1:20:51:27 - 1:20:57:04 - dog does a-ok sign

403 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 1:08:00 - “........ if we do not harvest animals, if we do not control the populations of these animals, then mother nature will do it.  And it’s not pretty

V2 -
    1:47:07:09 - 1:47:14:03 (start at 2:16:27:03)

404 - V* - WYGF - 20:40:17 - 20:49:12 - close up of badger w/rodent in mouth
405 - Andrea Lococo, Fund for Animals, Jackson, WY, Tape #1 - 0: 03:02 * the myths continue to exist despite the scientific knowledge that's out there. and I  I think the problem is is probably more deeply rooted and stems from uh what I perceive as an institutionalized  prejudice in our society that uh animals are viewed as valuable only if they somehow benefit us or promote our interests and if we can't exploit  them for pleasure or for profit then they'r of no consequence

39.5) 02:12:42:10 - 02:13:21:13

385 - 1:21:44 - Mark, “Let’s turn him over.  Hold him by his arm.  (both guys holding dog, Mark waving dogs arm) ‘Hi guys.  How you doin’?  Shoot me again.  Feels good.”  Mike, “I’m gonna mount him.”  Mark, “This is a good prairie dog (petting dog).  If it’s dead, its good. (other comments)  I can just see him with a lamp shade thing coming down here out of his butt, holding a miniature beer can.  Flip his nose and the light comes on. He’s peakin’ at ya there.  (laughs)”

40) 02:16:49:10 - 02:16:59:09
V2 - 01:55:55:27 - 01:56:02:20 (start at 02:16:36:05)

302 - V only - 5:0:08:39 - slow zoom out from dead dog to dead dog lying near mound
408 - Janet Parker, Varmint Hunters Association, Pierre, SD, Tape #9 - 1:08:20 -  ....... We believe in ethics and being humane in the taking of animals and * we’re as big of an animal lover as anybody else.”  

41) 02:17:18:10 - 02:17:51:11

413 - *V - 2:1:39:34 - antelope grazing, zoom out to trucks and cars rolling by
414 - Jon Sharps, Box Elder, SD, Tape #10 - 1:45:50 - "......... I don't believe that a human being has a right to dictate what can live and what can die and where it can be and where it can't be *.  .......we are not smart enough as  a species to make those determinations in my opinion and I just have well a great * respect for everything thats out here.  And I believe  it's here for a purpose and if we don't understand that, we shouldn't mess with it until we do

42) 02:18:43:09 - 02:19:10:14
V2 -
    #1 (start at 02:18:46:25) 02:18:50:04 - 02:18:53:19
    #2 02:22:01:04 - 02:22:05:26

422 - *V1 - 13:1:34:48 - close shot of cows packed in feed lot (3 sec. approx)
423 - V2 - 13:1:37:03 - close shot of cows in feed lot (3 sec. approx)
453 - kid  eating beef
424 - **V - 8:1:17:01 - still of sign, “Half LB Monsterburger....Breakfast Drive thru”  then zoom out to entire Hardees sign
425 - Rich Hotaling, Malta, MT, Bureau of Land Management, Tape #6 0:08:00 -, * "If the American people should decide that they no longer wish to eat beef........ (end *) conflict would disappear.  But I guess throughout the history of man there's always been a conflict between what consumers ** needed or wanted and what else they didn't want.  We definitely are a  supply and demand economy......... 426 - ** that's the choice that the American public has made

43) 02:19:44:12 - 02:19:57:18
V2 -
    #1 - 02:18:07:16 - 02:18:15:14
    #2 - 02:20:11:05 - 02:20:14:26

434 - William Supernaugh, Superintendent, Badlands National Park, Tape #12 - 0:15:42 -.......... we have to look at those kinds of questions as a nation to see what is important.  Whether we’re going to allow some of these species to come back from the brink of extinction

44) 02:20:26:08 - 02:20:52:16

439 - *V - MTFWP - 12:11:21 - 12:17:02 - swift fox hanging out around den
440 - **V - SDTOUR - 18:39:26 - 18:44:06 - buffalo running on green prairie
441 - ***V - COMNG -0:36:33 - prairie chickens walking around (end shot as bird runs from camera)
442 - ****V - USFWSDOGS -  1:21:44:12 - 1:21:48:29 - feruginous hawk flying
443 - *****V - BNP - 11:49:22 - 11:53:24 - songbird perched on very small twig in prairie
444 - Jasper Carlton, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, Tape #18 - 0:16:55 -    As far as the eye can see, you’re going to see cattle.  What you should see as far as the eye can see * is this fascinating display of native wildlife and raptors and mammals.  People would beat a path from around the world to see lesser prairie chickens, greater prairie chickens, (end ***) ferruginous hawks soaring in the sky.  That’s what we’re losing.  We’re losing a part of our own humanity over this.  

45) 02:21:11:21 - 02:21:50:26 (overlap a few frames of video from last shot)

450 - Music - “It’s Free” steel guitar solo only (hard cut on aerial, fade out over bob’s A)
451 - UWTV -  00:55:51:05 - 00:56:07:22 - flying very low over flat green plain

452 - Bob Luce, Non-game Biologist, Wyoming Game & Fish Department, Tape #1 - 1:01:46 - " I grew up on a farm in Nebraska myself where we had black tailed prairie dogs and it was our tradition to fight them and I think the world has changed somewhat in that regards in terms of ecological principles and ideals, but still many people are of the opinion that we're in a battle with nature.  We have to beat it.  We have to win

46) 02:22:08:23 - 02:23:28:23
V2 -
    #1 - (start at 02:23:09:18) 01:05:23:01 - 01:05:25:08
    #2 - 02:19:58:01 - 02:20:07:06

456 - Kevin Fridley, SD Department of Agriculture, Tape #8 - 1:55:00 -, “.....With all populations of animals, they can be managed and managed successfully. * We know that from history.

458 - *V - USFWSPUBDOM - 22:40:21 - 22:49:03
459 - V - USFWSPUBDOM - 22:50:23 - 23:00:15
460 - V - USFWSPUBDOM - 23:02:19 - 23:07:23
461 - Craig Knowles, Grassland Ecologist, Boulder, Montana, Tape #16 - 1:15:00 - we’ve got plenty of historical records with other wildlife species * that when you don’t regulate hunting and shooting of the wildlife population and it’s free and unlimited, people overharvest.  Passenger pigeon’s a good case.  Now the bison’s another one.  Even all the deer and elk in Montana, they were almost eliminated til it was regulated.”  

462 - *V1 - NDTRANS - 21:05:01 - 21:06:25
463 - V2 - USFSNG - 2:26:04 - 2:29:01
464 - V3 - USFSREG1 - 38:31:26 - 38:34:19
465 - V4 - NDTRANS - 4:47:04 - 4:49:12
466 - V5 - NDTRANS - 22:47:14 - 22:49:12
467 - V6 - DAKPRO - 24:44:14 - 24:59:15 - CU of two dogs, one standing, one lying
468 - William Supernaugh, Superintendent, Badlands National Park, Tape #12 - 0:20:45 - “.........while alot of people would probably laugh and others might cheer if you were to say the prairie dog might be going on that same route............* 469 -  I truly believe that if left to its own devices and if human pressures continue for the next 40 or 50 years, we very well might be looking at a species that we’re taking heroic efforts to bring back.  And it seems silly now to think about that, but in fact it’s not unreasonable to have that long view from a biological standpoint.  We could be doing that.”

47) 02:23:39:12 - (cut A1 when music starts)

471 - Jasper Carlton, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, Tape #18 - 0:14:54 - ......What did the wolf need in the northern rockies to come back?  One thing.  Not to be shot.  This is what the prairie dog needs.  Not to be shot.  Not to be poisoned.  If you didn’t do that the prairie dog could come back”  

472 - A/V - 12:1:27:05 - slow zoom in to machine loading bullets

473 - Mark Mason, Varmint Militia, Tape #17 - 0:59:22 - ...... we are a true militia.  We are called, to come defend this land from the invaders, which in this case is the rodents.  And we’re doing it.  We’re the first line of defense.  Couse when they poison them, that’s the last line of defense. But you can’t get em all.  That’s why there’s a few out there

474 - Music - The Incontinentals, “Laws of Nature”
1:32:04 - very close shot of dog in hole, zoom and pan to "Free pd town" (**)
1:33:41 - shot of side of building, "Free PD town" w/steer on top (***)
1:34:41 - "Free pd town" closer shot, crisp, still (***)
1:32:45 - close on "Free PD town" w/cow skulls (***)
1:28:52 - zoom out from giant prairie dog nose (***)

V2 - credits
    #1 - 02:29:20:22 - 02:29:58:19
    #2 - 02:30:01:07 - 02:30:25:04
    #3 - 02:30:30:06 - 02:30:51:14