About Feeding Wild Animals On San Juan Island

and any other place. . . . Journal of the San Juans Yesterday, June 3, 2009
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A fed wild animal is a dead wild animal | Editorial

By JULIA VOURI
Journal of the San Juans Correspondent
Jun 03 2009, 10:19 AM · UPDATED

At San Juan Island National Historical Park, particularly the American Camp prairie, the drama and wonder of animal life unfolds before our very eyes. Deer graze. Fox kits play as their mothers hunt. Eagles and hawks swoop over the prairie and perch on fences and snags, looking for their next meal. Mice, rabbits and voles contribute to the cycle of life.

But there are other activities we’ve seen that distress us: Visitors to the park stop their cars and lure fox kits with food so they can snap a photograph. Visitors let their dogs run off leash. A jogger runs through the park, letting her dog run free and bark at wildlife.

These activities are distressing because they upset the self-sustaining balance of prairie life.

They are also against the law.

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