Mt Whitney Zone Forums The Chat Room Potent New Rat Poison Killing Cal Wildlife

Thanks for the reference. I've been worried about that for years. DWR (California Snow Surveys) routinely leave rat poison in the backcountry snow survey cabins they use. I'm pretty sure we've stopped them from doing it in the National Park, but know it's going on in the other USFS cabins. I'll circulate this article and hope it gets their attention.

Also, the dope growers bring rodenticides into their grow sites, along with fertilizer and other nasty chemicals. Some years back, a guy doing an owl survey found an unexplained "hole" in his distribution of data. It correlated with a bunch of known dope growing sites. There was no followup, but it was pretty suspicious. Not to get this thread too far afield, but in all of the arguments for legalizing MJ, I've never seen anything about where it comes from and what ecological damage the growing of it does.

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