Thank you, Council, for removing native wildlife to make way for more fun

This is about the City of Longmont currently removing native animals from Dry Creek Park and replacing the native vegetation with acres of landscaped parks and ball fields.

I wanted to personally thank every councilor for their resistance to believing everything seen in the media these days, wild talk about the loss of over 60% of wildlife on our planet, climate change, drought and a biodiversity crisis! Thankfully, the elected officials of our beautiful city are seeing through this nonsense to the real root of the problem affecting humanity and threatening our children’s future: the lack of cricket fields, volleyball fields, baseball fields and waterways! This city council will go down in history as true visionaries in these difficult times of fake climate news.

It is comforting that our forward-thinking and insightful council is not afraid to go ahead with plans from 2008 to destroy a highly biodiverse area, and all the native wildlife that lives there, for what really matters – recreation!

And the council’s refusal to continue to extend the trapping period for prairie dogs to more than two frantic weeks so that the largest number of the 600+ prairie dogs are actually relocated and not exterminated, kudos!

The City Council can rest comfortably and give themselves a big pat on the back, knowing that the prairie dogs will not be in “our backyard”, instead being moved to distant lands. The council should be applauded for its apparent disregard for the myriads of other animals that rely on these prairie dogs and their dens for food and shelter. None of this annoying “it takes a village” nonsense in this city!

You are all true public servants and guardians of the environment and our future!

Susan Sommers, Longmont