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  • From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] offending squirrels in apricots
  • Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:16:01 -0400



Dr. Lucky Pittman wrote:
Jay, I'm sure you're getting a warm, fuzzy feeling thinking that you've removed
the 'offending' squirrels, yet not harmed them in any significant manner,
but years of study indicates otherwise. Wildlife biologists and various
state departments of fish & wildlife have, for years, tried to educated
people to the cold hard facts that relocation of wildlife - particularly
non-threatened species, like squirrels, raccoons, deer, etc., is not a
humane act - for the relocated animal, or for the established population
you've now introduced the 'relocated' animal into - and it's actually
illegal to do this in some states. Do a search for 'wildlife relocation', and you'll find a wealth of info.
Here's one for starters. http://icwdm.org/wildlife/euthanasia/relocation.asp

Far better to rapidly dispatch the offending squirrels, etc., than to
'relocate' them. I can provide some tasty squirrel recipes, if desired.

Lucky Pittman

Just some comments, not trying to prove one point or the other.
I was reading the newspaper last evening and there was a article about nascence bears being a bigger problem this year, compared to past years. The local DEC's way of handling this is to live trap the bears, put a tag in their ear and relocate them away from town. If a tagged bear gets into trouble a 2nd time, they kill it.
Also, they like to reintroduce species here. Bringing in Lynx was an utter failure. Bringing in turkeys and eagles was a booming success. They wanted to try wolves but public opinion (mostly deer hunters who didn't want the competition) made them abandon the plan. I know that reintroduction is different from relocation because there is no established population to blend in with.

Steve in the Adirondacks




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