Subject: squirrels
Date: Sep 04 17:06:00 1997
From: "John Shelton - ext. 4051" - johns at ohsu.EDU



Deb Beutler wrote:
>However, I beleive (totally unscientifically and probably without logic)
that animals
>introduced by man shouldn't have the same "rights", "protection", whatever
>as organisms that evolved in an area and have been there for a long time or
>recently expanded their ranges without direct help of man.
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I can't fault your logic. Would you consider the spread of the California
Jay into the northwest as a natural range expansion?

Since there's no chance that the "powers that be" would allow me to go
around the neighborhood blasting Starlings, squirrels, cats, etc. Do you
have any other solutions?

John Shelton
Portland, Oregon