Here's one that is chock full of leftist commie assholes who can't hope to win because both leftist choices are wrong on such a fundamental level.
.......in order to save endangered species
Aerial bombardment of a nature preserve with rat poison ......
The federal proposal calls for dropping rodenticide on the national wildlife refuge to eradicate invasive mice wreaking havoc on the ecosystem.
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Critics — including Sierra Club California and Leon Panetta, the former California congressman and U.S. defense secretary — said the plan could kill other wildlife. They have called for using non-lethal strategies such as contraceptives.
But supporters — backed by the California Coastal Commission staff and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists — say it is the only way to save the birds and unique species on the islands.
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“What we’re confronting next Thursday is a deliberate poison spill on our coast, and they’re asking the coastal commission to approve it,” said Richard Charter, senior fellow with the Ocean Foundation who helped create the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. “Proposed by the Biden Administration in Nancy’s Pelosi’s district, a toxic spill in the middle of a national marine sanctuary. I get kind of an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ feeling about this.”
Supporters say the poison bait drops are the only proven method available to fully eradicate mice on the island, and that the same method has succeeded on many other island habitats such as the Channel Islands. They also say that humans have an obligation to remove the mice that were first believed to have been introduced on the Farallon Islands by ships during the 1800s.
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But the estimated 60,000 house mice that also reside there have thrown the island ecosystem off balance, according to researchers.
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One of the worst impacts from the mice is attracting non-native burrowing owls, which abandon their normal winter migration route in favor of the smorgasbord the mice offer in the fall. Once the mice population crashes during the wintertime, the owls turn to another food source: the ashy storm petrel.
Only about six to 12 owls stay on the islands during the winters, but they can kill between 60 to 70 petrels each during this time, including breeding petrels. Models by Point Blue found that if the owls were to remain, the ashy storm petrel population could decline by 63%.
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The solution to the mice proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is to drop 2,880 pounds of bait pellets treated with a total of 1.2 ounces of a rodenticide called Brodifacoum-25D Conservation by helicopter and by hand.
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Crews would work to prevent other animals from eating the pellets either by capturing some animals such as burrowing owls, salamanders and peregrine falcons while also hazing western gulls. A federal contractor or partnering agency would be hired to monitor the island for any impacts. Crews would then scour the island and remove mouse carcasses.
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“Experimenting with a known multi-species poison already prohibited from retail sale in California, even as our state legislature is clearly moving toward banning its application on state lands with few exceptions, simply does not make sense,” Panetta wrote to the California Coastal Commission on Thursday. “To attempt to spread this compound at any time in proximity to the Dungeness crab or salmon seasons only further courts economic disaster.”
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