Santa Cruz Island’s Feral Pigs
Re “Biologists Propose Killing Wild Pigs on Santa Cruz Island,” Feb. 28.
I was appalled to read about the proposed plan to slaughter thousands of feral pigs on Santa Cruz Island at a cost of $7.5 million. This project is cruel and barbaric, and it is unnecessarily intrusive to impose artificial controls on an isolated area whose ecosystem will have little to no effect on any area outside that of a single national park.
To label it a restoration process is absurd. It is a mass extermination effort, the likes of which have led to so many species having to be put on the endangered list.
Can’t they allow a species to proliferate on its own capability? Can’t that $7.5 million be put to better use?
MARK DARCOURT
Glendale
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