Posted on 07/07/2019 4:55:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A U.S. government agency is proposing the deployment of 1.5 tons of rat poison to limit the spread of an invasive rodent problem in the Farallon Islands, located 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) was spearheading the proposal, which it claimed would eradicate tens of thousands of house mice, an invasive species harming the native ecosystem. FWS said the mice have attracted burrowing owls that have fed on the rodent population, insects and storm-petrels, a rare type of bird. The mice also have helped spread an invasive plant species, experts said.
A public hearing is set to take place this Wednesday by the California Coastal Commission to determine if the massive spread of the rat poison, brodifacoum, will be the best course of action going forward, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"House mice are impacting the native ecosystem of the islands, including several native species and wilderness," the FWS wrote in an Environmental Impact Statement back in March. "Eradicating invasive mice is expected to benefit native seabirds, amphibians, terrestrial invertebrates, and plants and will help restore natural ecosystem processes on the islands. Eradicating house mice would eliminate the last remaining invasive mammal species on the Refuge, enhancing the recovery of this sensitive ecosystem."
The FWS wrote that it looked at numerous ways to get rid of rodent populations, but found the poison was the most efficient method, noting that 28 of 30 rodent eradication projects since 2007 have been successful. The agency also mentioned that any poison that fell in the water would dissolve quickly or sink to the bottom -- and crews would remove certain birds temporarily until the risk of ingesting poison decreased.
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Where? Downtown LA?
Save the rats
NO..Washington DC. And San Fran.
Lol.. rats are leaving san fran sicko. That might be a final warning.
just put the stray cats down there. Poison is p-o-i-s-o-n!
Illegal invaders?
Hmmm...
10th and L street, Sacramento?
Spectre gunship: “Where do you want it?
Colonel Kirby: “Put it on [San Francisco]; they’ve got it, we don’t!”
“mice have attracted burrowing owls’
The owls will starve now. Call PETA!
They scream to high heaven about pesticides and have thousands of signs not to put things in the gutter as it goes into the bay/ocean....
It says right in the first line, where:
“Farallon Islands, located 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco. “
Not LA — yet.
Kill them, before there will be even more of them and will spread everywhere.
Cat
Can they spread it on Congress? /s
Oh this is gonna end well.
Earth in the Balance!
The problem with poison is that it kills unintended species.
How about thousands of spayed/neutered feral cats instead? Oh, wait...they’d eat the birds too.
Is there anything we can dump on Democrats to rid the USA of such pestilence?
Why don’t they just wait for the oceans to rise, inundating the islands, and drowning the rats. I guess they don’t believe that hoax.
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