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ysabetwordsmithColorado Released Thousands of Prairie Dogs In A Chemical Wasteland
Prairie dogs were released into one of America's most toxic sites — a former chemical weapons factory that manufactured mustard gas and nerve agents for decades. The soil was dead, the water poisoned, and the cleanup cost $2.1 billion just to contain the damage. But those rodents didn't just stabilize the dirt — they triggered a cascade that rebuilt an entire food web from scratch, culminating in the return of North America's rarest mammal to ground that once produced weapons of war.
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Prairie dogs were released into one of America's most toxic sites — a former chemical weapons factory that manufactured mustard gas and nerve agents for decades. The soil was dead, the water poisoned, and the cleanup cost $2.1 billion just to contain the damage. But those rodents didn't just stabilize the dirt — they triggered a cascade that rebuilt an entire food web from scratch, culminating in the return of North America's rarest mammal to ground that once produced weapons of war.
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