Re: Article: Precision Extinction - Eradicating a species when you want to isn't that easy


"Robert Karl Stonjek" <rstonjek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:dmreb1$1pdh$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> From: "William Morse" <wdmorse@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 4:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Article: Precision Extinction - Eradicating a species when you
> want to isn't that easy
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> > "Robert Karl Stonjek" <rstonjek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> > news:dmgj6l$2dj4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
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> > > Precision Extinction
> > > Eradicating a species when you want to isn't that easy
> > > By Nick Atkinson
> > > The environmental havoc these creatures wreak, it would appear,
> > > justifies control, if not complete eradication. Various factors affect
> > > such decisions, the cost of action versus inaction ultimately
> > > determining the fate of many invasive species. Scientists are faced
> > > with a doubly daunting task: to prove economic harm and reduce the
> > > costs of control, tipping the balance of the equation.
> > >
> > > Scientific research now underpins almost all efforts to control
> > > invasive species, but in evolutionary terms such organisms are very
> > > much a moving target, and hard to hit. By definition, they are able to
> > > exploit new habitats and out-compete local species. That they are good
> > > at what they do is what makes them both undesirable and difficult to
> > > eradicate.
> >
> >Bill Morse:
> > Now if we could only get rid of those pesky Homo sapiens :-)
> >
>
> RKS:
> An infestation of feral George Bushs should do it...

I'm afraid the Bush genus has lost vigor due to domestication and
can no longer survive in the wild without its advisors.


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