Marijuana Farms Expose Spotted Owls to Rat Poison in Northwest California

[douglas9]

Wildlife species are being exposed to high levels of rat poison in northwest California, with illegal marijuana farms the most likely source point, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, with the California Academy of Sciences.

The study, released Jan. 11 in the journal Avian Conservation and Ecology, showed that seven of the 10 northern spotted owls collected tested positive for rat poison, while 40 percent of 84 barred owls collected also tested positive for the poison.

[Press release of images, owl calls and study documents.]


https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/marijuana-farms-expose-spotted-owls-rat-poison-northwest-california

[wasupaloopa]

1. Obvious the owls eat the rodents and get the poison. They need more cats not poison. Common pot

heads get a clew.

[samnsara]

2. the pot farms in wash state have to be organic.. wouldnt that

..exclude using such poison? Just get a bunch of dang cats!