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Prairie dogs met match in Minnesota

By Dennis Lien, Knight Ridder Newspapers
Dec 27, 2005
Dec 27, 2005

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — It was the infestation that never was. One Minnesota horse farmer saw to that.

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