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Not worth it.
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Still not worth it.
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Is this Fireball or his wife?
It's hard to tell. Estrogen levels seem about equal.
Dave
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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Bye.
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Plagues and extreme weather is what kills them.
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In my area, I'm thinking it had to be some kind of plague or disease that went through. Even isolated colonies that rarely got shot were gone over the course of a couple years. During the time our local squirrels were at a low point we would drive to Eastern OR and their Beldings Ground Squirrels were thick as hell.
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Pdogs have been up and down over the last decade, some years have been really bad.
Are grounds squirrel population variations like this as well? Yes. I had spots that literally crawled with them in 2009 and 2010. You won't fire a single round if you go to those spots today. They are gone, gone, gone. Dave Landowners finally resort to poison? Nope. Mother nature. Dave Huh, good to know. Populations are down around here too compared to 20yrs ago, but I guessed ranchers were getting tired of dealing with holes in irrigation pipes and just resorted to poison. .22LR shortages for the last 7yrs had fewer hunters too, so I thought numbers would be back up if poison wasn't the reason. In related news, the jackrabbit cycle was at an all-time high this year.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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Huge fluctuations year to year. On the bad years you literally can not poison enough of them. We have tried, with the good poison too.
Nothing we do as humans even makes a dent.
Drought, tough winters, floods, disease and just an overpopulation can cause a collapse.
Generally takes a few years to rebuild, and then it happens again.
Sure, eagles, hawks, snakes, badgers, coyotes and foxes eat some of them, but its the other factors that really drive the populations.
While our Richardson's ground squirrel is coming back a bit, the pocket gophers are terrible. Kinda sucks, you cant shoot them.
I am MAGA.
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Plagues and extreme weather is what kills them.
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In my area, I'm thinking it had to be some kind of plague or disease that went through. Even isolated colonies that rarely got shot were gone over the course of a couple years. During the time our local squirrels were at a low point we would drive to Eastern OR and their Beldings Ground Squirrels were thick as hell. I was talking to a guy yesterday who worked for the Air Force at Gowen Field as a helicopter mechanic and he was talking about the Black Plague that has hit the ground squirrels north of the Snake River in SW Idaho. He mentioned something about the plague that really stood me up...."sounds like it got away from them."
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At least in the southwest, ground squirrels are the most prevalent host to plague- much more so than prairie dogs. I suspect that is what knocks them down.
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