Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Feds to Carpet Picturesque California Islands with Nearly 3,000 Pounds of Rodent Poison
Western JournalPublished 15 hours ago on December 20, 2021By Jack Davis, The Western Journal

The federal government will carpet bomb the Farallon Islands, off the coast of California, with poison in an unprecedented effort to control the mouse population.

The California Coastal Commission on Thursday gave the plan the go-ahead with a 5-3 vote, according to SFGate.

However, the roughly 3,000 pounds of poison will not be dropped for roughly two more years under the plan proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, according to The Associated Press.

The mouse problem has been discussed for years, and the population of mice has increased while humans have debated with what to do — to the point where the critters are “just covering the ground,” said Pete Warzybok, Farallon Islands program leader for Point Blue Conservation Science research institute, SFGate reported.

“During this time period, the island is riddled with mouse burrows. There are times when you walk outside, and you actually see the ground undulating as the mice are running about below the surface. Quite frankly, it’s a horrifying sight. It’s like something right out of a horror movie,” he explained.

The mice are not native to the islands, arriving with ships a century ago, the AP reported.

Removing the animals is necessary to protect other species that live on the islands, which are about 27 miles off the coast of San Francisco.

The rocky islands, which have no human dwellers, are home to seabirds, seals and sea lions. Proponents of slaughtering the mice say they need to die to protect salamanders, some species of birds and the Farallon cave cricket, which is unique to the islands.

Famed primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall opposed the plan, saying that dropping “super-toxic rat poison” will “inflict pain and suffering on a great many sentient animals,” according to the AP.

Richard Charter, a senior fellow at the conservation group the Ocean Foundation also opposed the plan, according to The Guardian.

“For the California Coastal Commission, whose members are sworn to supposedly protect the California coast, to irrationally approve a proposal by the Biden Administration to spread a deadly multi-species ecosystem poison amidst our National Marine Sanctuary in Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district is beyond ironic, it’s totally incomprehensible,” he wrote in an email.

Charter said “nuking the island with a poison that kills everything” is not the answer, according to The Guardian.

The plan is designed to intimidate seagulls from making their usual stop at the islands using lasers, spotlights, pyrotechnics and other measures, according to The Guardian.

Burrowing owls and other birds of prey that might eat the poisoned mice and poison themselves will be gathered and removed, according to The Guardian.

But Sara Wan of the conservation group Western Alliance for Nature said some birds will die from eating poisoned mice no matter what humans do.

“I cry at the thought,” she said, The Guardian reported. “If I sound angry to you, it’s because I am.”

https://flagandcross.com/feds-to-carpet-picturesque-california-islands-with-nearly-3000-pounds-of-rodent-poison/

I don't like the idea of using poison. The rodents aren't the only animals that will be killed. Other animals will eat the poison and birds of pray will be poisioned by eating the poisoned rodents. Herz an idea...Have Dr Moreau or Dr Frankenstein and his Chinese buddies design a virus that will only attack rats and mice....and Democrats...they're all the same.

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

Just add a female and male coyote and let nature take its course. Then when the coyote's off spring run out of food, remove the coyotes.

Peaver Bogart Loc: Montana

Feral cats.....

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Chicago tried this a few years ago. They spayed and nuetered the cats and turned them loose. I don't know how it turned out.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-releases-1000-feral-cats-to-deal-with-surging-rat-problem/ar-BB1gFYmm

woodguru

Cats go after too many other things...like birds

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

If You Only Like Democracy When It Goes Your Way You Do Not Like Democracy
but...but...but My way is the onliest way it's supposed to go---that's just common sense!!!

River Reb Loc: MS Delta

THAT is an excellent idea!

Wonttakeitanymore

Drop cats on the island!!

DotsMan

I was going to suggest that but you got ahead of me. I must be getting slow in my old age.

TruePatriot49 Loc: The Democratic People's Republic Rhode Island

Can we do this in Democrat cities? We need to thin the herd in these crime infested hell holes..

DotsMan

Probably didn't work out very well.

The article states that businesses and residents provided " food, water...etc." If you feed them they won't go after the rats.

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

Probably liberal women or cat ladies fed then daily on their back porch or took then in and they are now living on a soft pillow, eating gourmet cat food.