And now they're coming to kill the plants today. Signs up all over Lookout Hill that the Parks Dept. will be spraying Roundup herbicide all over the hill, and we saw the trucks arriving. "If it's alive, kill it!!" seems to be the motto of the Parks Department. What is wrong with these people? Maybe my joke about building condos in the park wasn't such a joke after all?
Other than the threat of death and injury, it was a beautiful day. Lots of dogs, after several rainy days. A red cardinal swooping around a tree. Very few birds on the lake today, but we didn't walk all the way around. The whole lake feels way too empty.
No crack bags on Lookout Hill, but a single boot. Fodder for a short story, I think.
And there are now four truck tires in the Parade Grounds. Definitely looks like someone is using them for some athletic training.
Well, the pesticide signs are not unique to PP. Red flags and signs around the lawns in CP as well just prior to reopening of lawns and anticipated heavy human use.
ReplyDeleteBirds then graze on the sprayed grasses. One has to wonder about the long range effects?
It is important that you and others are monitoring numbers of geese at the lake. Highly inflated "counts" will result in further cullings.
Spoke to spokesperson yesterday from USDA. She said that as long as goose numbers are low, the USDA "usually doesn't have to return the next year."
However, USDA does NOT actually make those decisions. They are simply the "hired guns" so to speak.
Much depends on city leadership and FAA. The "airline safety" excuse is the red herring here.
If they pull that one out, then geese can be culled without going through usual protocols of Envioronmental Impact Statements and use of non-lethal alternatives first. However, I believe they are still required to do Community Notice, just as they have to do when spraying pesticides.
That community notificaton was not done last summer prior to goose gassings at PP, was a failure of ommission.
PP is also outside the 7 mile radius to airports that was supposed to be the rationalization for the massacre.
A lot of red herrings here, but apparently not a lot of geese at PP.
I know they have tried to have volunteers pull up the invasive species, but probably don't have nearly enough numbers to control the problem. It's not a clear cut black and white issue. Japanese Honeysuckle out competes our native plants that provide food for our native birds and animals. It also strangles and kills our native shrubs and trees. There are hosts of other plants in our park that also contribute to these problems and its an issue that must be constantly dealt with because ignorant people still insist on having these plants in their yards. We shouldn't just assume that the people who are trying to deal with these issues are jerks who are just into killing things. They are people who love the plants and animals so much that they are not ignorant of the issues that effect them and are doing everything they can to try to help them. I agree it does suck that they have to use chemicals, but i am sure they feel there is no other way at the moment.
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