Thread: Decades of 1080….before and after

I believe it would be of far better econimic and practicle value to make little islands of sanctuary all over the show,wherever geography lends itself to doing it and nuke those areas really hard to kill off all the bad species then reintroduce the desirable ones....and keep them pest free manually,trap ,shoot,monitor....
they would end up acting as nurseries with excess populations going out into big brave dangerous world.
I believe the trick to keeping possum numbers down is a big hit then continual bait stations ,trapping or shooting.... as said before if you want buffer zones,make it economically viable and attractive to go after them possums either full time or full on part time...the bounty idea has been bandied about for years... just as an EG ...the Beemans...Mr &Mrs go out and trap possums,pluck the fur and sell the bodies..now if you gave them say $2-5 per set of ears ASWELL..... it really starts to add up....
the cockies kids would start to run trap line again.... and so what if road kill gets scalped and handed in??? its a dead possum=a good possum
people would only target the easy country,others will say...again so what??? thats the buffer zone you WANT TARGETED,its the landscape with cattle on it or close by.

why I detest 1080 is Ive seen how it kills dogs....its really ugly to put it mildly.... dogs are very suseptable and it only takes a tiny bit of poison or dead carcass to kill a dog.... family friend lost 16 dogs in one night,while they were overseas representing NZ in sport.....possum bodies had been bought from regular supplier...what no one knew was that a person had collected bodies from a 1080 drop zone....sold them to possum buyer and the rest is history.