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Leitmotiv wrote:There aren't too many invasive species you can control. Control is a joke. Mother nature will often get her way, and if you try to stop her, you'll end up contaminating the environment in the process.
BrianC wrote:Leitmotiv wrote:There aren't too many invasive species you can control. Control is a joke. Mother nature will often get her way, and if you try to stop her, you'll end up contaminating the environment in the process.
Exactly!
Pippin wrote:Oh, sure they can control WNS as an invasive species. They're going to set up checkpoints at every road entering and leaving WI and spray down every person and everything inside each vehicle with lysol--just in case. Then they're going to also trap every single bat, bird, owl, and every other winged creature entering the state and also spray them down--just in case. Phase II will probably involve capturing all of the terrestrial animals crossing state lines.
PYoungbaer wrote:Milwaukee Journal article identifies Pittman-Robinson funds ($345,000) as source of funding WIDNR bat conservation activities. Interesting discussion:
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/outdoors/114249119.html
PYoungbaer wrote:Yes! And if they were shot full of holes, the excise tax on the ammo that did it would fund new ones! Self-sustaining!
With all the obvious thought involved in the policy, they probably believe just posting signs at state lines will do fine. Of course the signs will need decon, as well as any living organism inside the state.
John Lovaas wrote:Hell, I'm a huge conservation/preservation nut, but I don't think Pittman-Robinson funds should be used for non-game animal related work. That being said, I don't know how strictly use of the funds can be controlled.
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