Poisoning Lakes in North Cascades National Park

By Aureliux
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http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_fish_stocking_casca

I'm sure this makes a lot of sense to someone. Those lakes have been stocked with trout for YEARS. Has there been a study to determine any impact this will have on anything else in the environment that has become dependent on those trout for a food source?

Has anyone else ever got to see an osprey catch a trout? 30 years ago they were almost extinct in this state. Otters have also started to return after they were almost trapped out of existence.

Is it time to keep this "back to nature" argument rolling so we can wonder when grizzly bears and wolves will once again be reintroduced to all of the lower 48 states? Bison would be a nice addition, too, along with woodland caribou, moose, and antelope. Might be required to take down a few fences so they could range and survive, though.

Hope everyone is going to be satisfied when they poison out all those lakes to kill off those terrible invading trout.

And I'm sure that they will use some kind of safe and sane toxin that won't impact anything else up there.

Time to kill off, poison, and prevent release of any more pheasants because they aren't native to this area? Oh, wait! The STATE makes a lot of money selling those upland game bird tags...

Is this what people in this state really want?

Unbelievable.

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The Rest of that URL byAureliux April 12, 2009 (3 votes) (report abuse) (reply)
cascades.html?source=mypi

The URL line was too long and didn't all copy in, so there is the rest of it where it broke at "CASCADES".

Anybody out there ever experienced a lake that was poisoned out for a 100% fish kill? They use a toxin that takes all the oxygen out of the water so the fish suffocate, float to the surface gasping for a few minutes before they die. It is NOT a wonderful scene to behold.


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poison lakes is wrong byMaxtodon April 12, 2009 (3 votes) (report abuse) (reply)
if they stop stocking them and let it go is one thing lets it wind down kinda naturally with not as much problems giving things time to cope maybe.

poisoning all those lakes at same time cant be rite.

Everybody goes up there just about all fish when they get there who is wanting to hike that far high up for a dead nothing in it lake?
poisoned trout bylordoflys April 12, 2009 (3 votes) (report abuse) (reply)
I agree with Max...Stop stocking hi-country lakes but let the trout population wind down naturally. If the trout there do reproduce naturally and the lakes maintain a small population...fine.
We spotted a bald eagle and an osprey fighting over a fish the other day on the river. And I have seen otters near my house. The mighty Yak seems to be very healthy and I give the sometimes-maligned Washington Fish and Game people a big thumbs up for their work on the river's behalf.
RE: poisoned trout byMaxtodon April 12, 2009 (1 votes) (report abuse)
Thanx. Think those trout though are the special kind and cant reproduce dont know how they can do that to fish like that but they grow faster that way too.
Still all wrong to poison whole lake. if they have to can just let it go back naturaly.
RE: poisoned trout byMaxtodon April 15, 2009 (1 votes) (report abuse)
can write to Congrssman Doc Hastings:

http://hastings.house.gov/Contact.aspx

click on send email its fast and easy and he always replies in regular mail. Congress can supposed to do soemthing bout this.
RE: poisoned trout byCleElum1 April 15, 2009 (0 votes) (report abuse)
Thanks Maxtodon,

For the link to Doc Hastings that I immediately put to good use.
This Is Just Sooo Wrong byCleElum1 April 12, 2009 (2 votes) (report abuse) (reply)
Un-f-ing real!!! What is wrong these people?

Ohhh-kay, soooo, quit stocking, but why poison the lake? Like there's nothing else that depends on the lake as a source of water? Oh yah, that's right, the poison only kills trout and hurts nothing else in anyway, shape, or form. Silly me???
RE: This Is Just Sooo Wrong byAureliux April 12, 2009 (3 votes) (report abuse)
Did sit down, and I did write a letter to Doc Hastings about this issue. Will have to see if it does any good.

Had to think today about other invasive species that don't belong here.

English gray squirrel is taking over and is supposedly harming the life and habitat of our own native red squirrel.

Don't EVEN get me started on starlings...

Really do like having pheasants around. But they aren't NATURAL here, is some genius going to insist that we HAVE to get rid of them some day?

Sparrows were brought here from someplace else.

Someone turned some kind of wild sheep loose south of E-burg in the canyon. Was there anything wrong with that? In a few years will the (ir)responsible parties decide that they have to be exterminated, or captured and sterilized so they'll die out? You know that little expedition will be real cheap and easy...

Budget woes are troubling the parks dept and they are always threatening cuts and closures. NOW they want to spend money to poison out some lakes, to get them back to original sterile emptiness.

Wonderful.

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Er... about those wild sheep... byMC April 13, 2009 (1 votes) (report abuse) (reply)
If you're talking about the 'bighorns', they're native. There are petroglyphs of sheep at Gingko SP.

http://geology.com/articles/petroglyphs/washington-petroglyp

The herds were restocked from other states after they were decimated by diseases from domestic sheep and goats (and meat hunting probably had a part also).

But yeah, the starlings and European house finches are the pits.
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