Shoot, shovel and shut up.
Once upon a time, on a military base not to be mentioned, we built a great new obstacle course in the woods. Less than a week after construction finished, we got a notice from the EPA about the need to protect an area of ten yards around certain plants beginning October first. This being mid-September, I grabbed a shovel and a tape measure, and spent a profitable day at the new confidence course and along the paths leading to it.
Come October, there were no protected plants anywhere nearby.
Ah, yes. Same reason you won't find any 'endangered' kangaroo rats in the SoCal desert.
ReplyDelete[Idiots counted 'em during the day and declared 'em endangered. They're nocturnal, and common enough to be pests.]