Varmints 4:30, Thursday, October 18, Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell University

Free and open to the public

with Professor David Wolfe, Horticulture Prairie dogs are blamed for taking valuable grazing land away from American livestock, and are therefore labelled varmints which can be hunted by anyone in any season. But as their natural habitat dwindles to 2% of what it once was, questions begin to arise about the prairie dog's true place in the American West. Detailing the conflicting perspectives of farmers, ranchers, environmentalists, hunters and ecologists, Varmints asks the most important question of all: is the prairie dog just an agricultural pest or an essential part of the ecosystem? Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the International Wildlife Film Festival. Directed by Doug Hawes-Davis. 1999, USA, 56 minutes.

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