Endangered or threatened? Feds review pocket gopher protection request
Also, they are trying to split 'blacktailed prairie dogs' into separate 'populations', then impose restrictions on each 'population', just like they did salmon: treat each 'population' as if it were a separate species.
Some years ago, Washington state passed an initiative bill outlawing trapping written by the Greenies, with full assurance that they could be believed that it wouldn't apply to rats, mice, gophers, and other vermin pests. Guess what! The Greenies lied, and I've read articles of prosecutions for trapping vermin with 'cruel, lethal traps', instead of live traps for 'release to the wild'. Saturday, February 14, 2009 2:06 AM MST
GREEN RIVER — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to conduct a year-long status review of the Wyoming pocket gopher to see if the animal requires federal endangered species protections.
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I killed a mouse yesterday with a brick. It was stupid enough to walk into plain sight in my family room. I just happened to have a brick on an end table nearby. (It’s a decorative item from a now defunct brickyard.)
Lobbed it underhand right on top of him from about 10 feet. No damage to the brick or the tile floor. Mickey was crushed, though.