[general_re]

We must protect the ever endangered non-native salmon.

You know, here in the rest of the country, we have a term for unwanted non-native species - "pests". And they get "eliminated".

WTF sense does that make? If they're non-native, and they're interfering with human activity, just dynamite the d*mn river and skim 'em off with a net, and the heck with the ESA.

I guess I wouldn't fit in in California very well with an attitude like that, though ;)

[farmfriend]

just dynamite the d*mn river and skim 'em off with a net, and the heck with the ESA.

You can only do that if you are the government. They poisoned one lake in order to get rid of the Northern Pike that some idiot put in there. Didn't work and eliminated the towns water supply to boot.

[ArrogantBustard]

You know, here in the rest of the country, we have a term for unwanted non-native species - "pests". And they get "eliminated".

I wish. I've two words for you:

Kudzu

Nutria