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  • From: "Bill Russell" <shaman@pennswoods.net>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Relocating wildlife
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 22:51:24 -0400

The Joy of Cooking book has some good directions for cleaning and preparing
groundhog for the table. After all, it's a clean living vegetarian animal.
Maybe we should put aside our prejudices and not feel squeamish about eating
our garden vegetables second hand.

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Levine" <mlevine@umich.edu>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Relocating wildlife


> I agree one hundred per cent with what you have said.
> I must add however, that in some municipalities it is neither legal to
> relocate nor to kill wildlife leaving few options for the urban gardener.
> Also, the groundhog was on a neighbor's property who made promise not to
> poison/hurt it. So I couldn't shoot it (don't have a gun anyway), poison
> it, or otherwise kill it. So it was either relocate it or not have a
> garden. What would you choose?
> Too bad we don't have many coyotes in the city limits here...
>
> Enough, however, on the ethics/legislation of relocating wildlife and I
> won't lecture y'all on the use of herbicides/pesticides nor on the
> propagation of invasive species (even if they are edible), nor on the
> environmental impact of eating high on the food web. Unless someone wants
> to initiate a new thread in one of those directions.
>
> How about some constructive ideas on how to prevent the little buggers
from
> coming back or humane, legal ways of dealing with them for vegetarians.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Levine
> Ann Arbor, MI
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lucky Pittman" <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:48 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Relocating wildlife
>
>
> > At 11:29 AM 08/30/2002 -0400, Gordon wrote:
> > >I disagree on the relocation of wild animals from your place to someone
> > >else place so that they can share in your problems that you are trying
to
> > >eliminate.
> >
> >
> > Most wildlife biologists and state Fish & Wildlife personnel are
> > diametrically opposed to 'relocating' wildlife - at least those that are
> > not considered to be 'threatened' or 'endangered' species. In some
> states,
> > it is even illegal to do so.
> > I understand that many people are uncomfortable with trapping and
killing
> > vermin such as squirrels, groundhogs, and the like, and think that they
> are
> > being 'humane' by simply taking them to a remote location and releasing
> them.
> > However, it may not be so humane as they'd like to think - but at least
> > they don't die in their sight, or directly at their hands.
> >
> > Relocated animals have to search out food sources in their 'new'
> > surroundings - if this is a species that caches food for the winter,
like
> > chipmunks, relocation, particularly in fall or early winter, is a
> veritable
> > death sentence.
> > Relocated animals also have to search out nesting/sleeping shelter in
> their
> > new surroundings, which may be difficult, depending on time of year.
> > If the area they are relocated to is already at peak carrying capacity
for
> > that species, either the located animal is going to die a slow death due
> to
> > starvation & exposure, or one of the previous residents is going to be
> > displaced and die.
> > Relocating animals can spread diseases that may impact wildlife and
humans
> > alike. Take the raccoon rabies epidemic which has swept up the eastern
> > seaboard, for example. Raccoons relocated from south GA or FL to W.VA
> > carried the raccoon strain of the rabies virus with them, and it has
> spread
> > like wildfire up the east coast and is now sweeping west across PA & OH.
> >
> > All in all, it's much better to terminate such garden/orchard pests in a
> > rapid, humane manner than to relocate them - whether to a remote,
> > uninhabited area, or to a spot where they may be a nuisance to someone
> else.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Lucky Pittman
> > USDA Zone 6
> > Hopkinsville, KY
> >
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