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    Marijuana Gardeners to Blame for Owl Deaths?

    GRANTS PASS, Ore. — In the West Coast marijuana-growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, scientists want to know whether the rat poison spread around illegal pot plantations is killing northern spotted owls, a threatened species.

    But because it is so rare to find a spotted owl dead in the forest, they will be looking at an invasive cousin owl from the East that has been pushing spotted owls out of their territory since the 1990s.

    Mourad Gabriel, a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, said Tuesday they are testing 84 barred owls from Northern California killed in the course of research on whether removing them allows spotted owls to reclaim lost territories. Those owls were collected primarily by the California Academy of Sciences and Green Diamond Resource Company, which grows redwood for timber.

    More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3348955.html
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    scientists want to know whether the rat poison spread around illegal pot plantations is killing northern spotted owls
    Prohibition is killing northern spotted owls.
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    Owl eats rat poison and dies... Obviously marijuana's fault. Freakin bizarro world we live in these days.

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    Why the rat poison?
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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    Why the rat poison?
    Good question.

    I would expect Rat Poison to be used in a few cabins and weekend resorts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    Good question.

    I would expect Rat Poison to be used in a few cabins and weekend resorts.
    Damn. Thought you'd have the answer.

    Owls or not, it does seem like a bad idea to surround crops with rat poison.
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    Quote Originally Posted by amy31416 View Post
    Damn. Thought you'd have the answer.

    Owls or not, it does seem like a bad idea to surround crops with rat poison.
    Of the few growers I have known.. rats were never mentioned as a problem.
    Deer occasionally,, but not rats. They seem to like Farm, Home and Urban areas.
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