Yup... Space pollution began in earnest in 1961 when the Westford needles program INTENTIONALLY launched hundreds of thousands of short wires into Low Earth Orbit. It was an attempt to build a passive antenna for communication.
Didn't work, but we still have lots of orbiting bits of wire from the Kennedy era.
... so they didn't have to soak the place with RAID. I'm guessing that it is possible to make bait which is attractive to rats, but not birds.
Santa Anacapa is three really small islands, so I doubt there are any native land mammals there (or ones which aren't common on nearby islands.) Santa Cruz island has some native foxes, but that's about it. The seals are quite happy in the area, though. Maybe the beaches are the areas where the poison isn't allowed.
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Yup... Space pollution began in earnest in 1961 when the Westford needles program INTENTIONALLY launched hundreds of thousands of short wires into Low Earth Orbit. It was an attempt to build a passive antenna for communication.
Didn't work, but we still have lots of orbiting bits of wire from the Kennedy era.
... so they didn't have to soak the place with RAID. I'm guessing that it is possible to make bait which is attractive to rats, but not birds.
Santa Anacapa is three really small islands, so I doubt there are any native land mammals there (or ones which aren't common on nearby islands.) Santa Cruz island has some native foxes, but that's about it. The seals are quite happy in the area, though. Maybe the beaches are the areas where the poison isn't allowed.