They said it: Ridding Farallon Islands of mice

“It’s like dropping a nuclear bomb on this island.”

— California Coastal Commissioner Roberto Uranga, at a hearing last week on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to airdrop 1.5 tons of poison pellets on the South Farallon Islands to kill some 60,000 mice threatening native plants and animals. The Wildlife Service has put the plan on hold.