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Warned by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that Malathion-base spray could put the 3-in.-long nocturnal rodent at risk (and the state in violation of the Federal Endangered Species Act), officials agreed to avoid aerial spraying of the area where the kangaroo rat is found, a 5-sq.-mi. region of Riverside County 60 miles southeast of Los Angeles. While they bear no malice toward the rats, anti-sprayers are astounded by the decision. The government, said Adelaide Nimitz, president of Families Opposed to Chemical Urban Spraying, would rather "protect the rats and spray people...
Alpert said that he had not heard about the mice in the North Yard dorms and said that he has not received any reports of rodent epidemics since December, when the University replaced its Yard trash cans with rodent-proof ones...
...member of the Animal Welfare Committee at Phillips Brooks House Association, Aridjis has encouraged students in Hollis with rodent problems to use "humane traps," which capture but do not kill the mice...
...midst of the rodent problem, somestudents see little cause for alarm...
...some ways, it [the rodent problem] is likefishing," said Roosevelt. "You go to bed and wakeup to look at traps...