Pot-Grower's Poison Taking Toll on Rare Fishers

Monday, July 16, 2012 - 11:32 in Biology & Nature

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the Integral Ecology Research Center, the University of California Davis and other partners shows that imperiled fisher populations are being poisoned by the use of anticoagulant rodenticides (AR) on public and community forest lands in California-likely those used illegally by marijuana growers.

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