FILE - This Aug. 6, 2015, file photo, shows prairie dogs, in southern Utah. Southern Utah residents who say federal safeguards for the Utah prairie dog prevent them from doing what they want with their property are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case. Attorneys for residents in Cedar City said in a Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, court filing that an appeals court February decision to strip Utah state officials of control of the burrowing critters amounts to "untrammeled federal intrusion." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)