have this be your monitory tale against building a pretty waterfront park on a landfill . At Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley Marina , squirrels and gophers are burrowing through old folderol , turn the ground into toxin - leaching swiss Malva sylvestris . toxicant from the estimated 1.9 million tons of residential , commercial-grade , and industrial waste is now leaching into the San Francisco Bay .
human beings on theSan Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Boardwon’t have it anymore , and they ’ve launched an all - out war on the rodents . The spite squirrel and gophers will be trapped and “ abated . ” Past efforts to reduce the the car park ’s rodent universe by work up habitats to entice in owls and raptors have so far die , so it ’s come up to extinction .
A map of San Francisco with areas now landfilled in pink viaKQED
Like many coastal community , the realm around San Francisco Bay has been dramatically augmented by trash . When real estate is scarce but ice is abundant , making land out of landfill makes a sealed form of consistent good sense . But animals have their own direction of reshaping the landscape , and they find no need to let buried crank lie .
Accordingto theSF Chronicle , though , creature do n’t appear to be disturb other landfill sites around the bay . “ For some rationality , the earth squirrels in Berkeley are invasive , ” said Lindsay Whalin , an engineering geologist with the weewee dining table , to the paper . Is now a secure clip to make a Berzerkeley joke ? [ San Francisco Chronicle ]
Top ikon of Cesar Chavez Park byorphanjones / Flickr
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