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(KSL News) --Golfers in Cedar City are facing an unusual hazard on the course, prairie dogs.
Instead of manicured lawns, dirt mounds spot the fairways at Cedar Ridge Golf Course. The Utah Prairie Dog is on the endangered species list, so the golf course can't remove the animals. The course managers say the biggest problem is the holes the prairie dogs create.
John Evans, Director of Golf, Cedar Ridge Golf Course: "The danger is of people stepping in the holes and the balls getting lost in the holes. I have a hard time running golf tournaments because I have to have so many special rules because of lost balls."
Ralph Mortensen, Parawon Resident: "It is a big problem. I like to see the little critters, but they tear up the fairways and things."
Golf course owners have submitted a plan to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources to remove the dogs from the property. They could approve the plan by the end of the summer.
