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TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2002

Tribal officials and ranchers in South Dakota met with Secretary of Interior Gale Norton recently to talk about the black-tailed prairie dog.

Critics say the dog is a plentiful menace that has devastated thousands of acres of private land and land on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Sioux reservations. Interior officials in 2000 said the animal was a "threatened" species.

Norton told the group, which included environmentalists, that the department will try to encourage cooperation among affected groups.

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