{"id":40992,"date":"2014-02-04T15:09:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/eradicating-invasive-species.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:25:55","slug":"eradicating-invasive-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/04\/eradicating-invasive-species.html","title":{"rendered":"Eradicating Invasive Species"},"content":{"rendered":"
… is usually non-controversial, whether it's kudzu or zebra mussels.<\/p>\n

But when it's purty birds<\/i> like mute swans, then all of a sudden folks who would normally be all pro-native-ecosystem get their priorities in a bunch.<\/p>\n

(Note to critics: putting forward the argument "humans are far more destructive than swans" sets the precedent that the Biggest, Worst Problem Only<\/i> needs to be dealt with in any circumstance. Is that really what you want to do?)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +The Wire<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let the War on Swans begin.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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New York Has A Plan to Wipe Out Swans. All of Them<\/a>
\n Mute swans\u00a0aren’t actually a natural part of the New York landscape, and now, the\u00a0New York State Department of Environmental Conservation\u00a0has targeted the birds for eradication.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… is usually non-controversial, whether it's kudzu or zebra mussels. But when it's purty birds like mute swans, then all of a sudden folks who would normally be all pro-native-ecosystem get their priorities in a bunch. (Note to critics: putting forward the argument "humans are far more destructive than swans" sets the precedent that the … Continue reading “Eradicating Invasive Species”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13388,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/yeah_i_think_maybe_i_got.html","url_meta":{"origin":40992,"position":0},"title":"Yeah, I think maybe I got me a piece of this","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 4-Jan-09 4:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Scientists claim that they've found some folk for whom romance lasts a lifetime, defying the clich\u00e9s and \"common sense.\" A team from Stony Brook University in New York scanned...","rel":"","context":"In "Love & Marriage"","block_context":{"text":"Love & Marriage","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/love-and-marriage"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/swans.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12622,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/09\/sunday_in_amsterdam.html","url_meta":{"origin":40992,"position":1},"title":"Sunday in Amsterdam","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Mar-08 3:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Random pieces and bits on my way toward shutting down ... A trio of us went into Amsterdam today -- a bit later than expected, as I got waylayed...","rel":"","context":"In "Fine Art"","block_context":{"text":"Fine Art","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-art"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3374,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/10\/another_day_ano.html","url_meta":{"origin":40992,"position":2},"title":"Another Day, Another Stroller","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Dec-02 3:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, I got to play Mr. Mom. Margie's conference began (complete with her moderating one of the panels, which I've no doubt she did smashingly at). So I got to...","rel":"","context":"In "Cars"","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41069,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40992\/revisions\/41069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}