And they're planning to kill 450,000 barred owls over thirty years, according to the article. That works out to about 41 owls a day over that 200,000 square miles, or about one owl per 5,000 square miles per day.
Yeah, that'll make a huge difference. No way will the barred owls be able to overcome a reproductive disadvantage like that. /s
Carmel, Ca. had (has) a pig problem near their water treatment
plant. The proposed solution was to cull about half the population once.
In ideal conditions, a population of wild pigs can double in just 4 months, but more typically, the annual growth rate in populations of feral hogs is about 20%. From...
https://icwdm.org/species/other-mammals/wild-pigs/wild-pig-biology/