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MAY 12, 2017
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By Promise Yee
Rattlesnakes are not creatures to mess with. Baby rattlers are especially lethal, so don’t let them fool you. When hiking, riding bikes, and working in the yard, wear high booted work shoes. Also, watch your pets. Don’t let them get near a snake. If they find one, call them away from it. Veterinarians have a rattesnake vaccine now for dogs. It is a multi part vaccine, so do it soon. They also have snake bite antidote. See our article on What To Do If You Are Bit. Stock photo
Beware: There are rattlers among us REGION — Now that warm weather’s upon us, everyone’s hiking more and more. But watch your step, because you’re not the only one breaking out of a winter rut. Rattlesnakes are, too. Each spring, North County sees an increase in rattlesnake near-misses, close calls and bites. Identifying them seems simple — their eponymous noise can only come from a snake, or a baby — but it’s not a guarantee. Sometimes, the snake doesn’t rattle at all. Think of it as the polar opposite of a kitten’s purr.
Bo Slyapich holds the title of “Rattlesnake Wrangler.” In addition to home and community relocations, he also clears out fields and zones for construction crews and Hollywood productions. Slyapich explained that the unseasonal weather Southern California has been experiencing will affect the frequency, and activity, of the snakes. “Usually with the rain it’s the following year, or the end of the season,” he said. Conversely, the drought we’ve experienced in years prior has affected the population as well. “In the last four years the females have had low numbers,” Slyapich
said. “They haven’t been healthy.” According to Slyapich, the proliferation of rattlesnakes is all a part of a healthy, working ecosystem. “More growth means more seeds, means more rodents, means fat rattlers,” he said. “Mom can have 20plus kids in late fall, around October or early November. Then they go in hibernation.” Slyapich refered to the early seasonal surge as a “bumper crop.” “We’ll see a bumper crop early,” he said. “The babies are smaller, so they warm up first, and that means they come out first.”
Southern California residents should know that snake encounters don’t just happen out on the trails. Homeowners tend to be perplexed when the snakes wind up leaving their dens and infiltrate the suburbs. Slyapich has received several calls where the snake in question has decided to wriggle indoors. “People have custom doors or people open their doors for the sea breeze,” he said. Slyapich insisted that there’s a logic to finding a snake in the cupboard: “The thing is, we have water,” he said. “Rodents folTURN TO RATTLERS ON A16
Southern California Edison to look at all temporary THE relocation options, and VISTA named the Palo Verde nuNEWS clear plant near Phoenix, the Ward Valley hazardous waste dump in the Mojave Desert and Camp Pendleton as possibilities. Oceanside Councilman Jerry Kern is a member of the Southern California Edison San Onofre Community Engagement Panel, which works to shareRANCHO information on the decommissioning process SFNEWS with the community. Kern provided the venue for Lutz to hold the town hall meeting in Oceanside, but did not agree with all that was shared. Kern said he agrees that the nuclear waste is in the wrong place and should be moved as quickly and safely as possible, but does not agree with all of Lutz's suggestions. “Some facts just weren't true, and some were partially true,” Kern said. Kern said temporary on-site ground storage that the lawsuit opposes is safer than maintaining the nuclear waste in cooling pools. Kern added that temporary storage at the Pala Verde nuclear plant near Phoenix, and permanent storage at Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository outside of Las Vegas, also mentioned by Lutz, are not immediately plausible because of local opposition.
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OCEANSIDE — The self-organized Citizens Oversight group rallied residents' support to move San Onofre spent nuclear fuel off site as soon as possible. Information on the dangers of the nuclear waste and delays in moving it were shared at a town hall meeting May 4. A civil lawsuit by Citizens Oversight challenged state Coastal Commission approval of a permit to move the nuclear waste from its on-site cooling pools into in-ground storage containers. The lawsuit prompted settlement agreement discussions between Citizens Oversight and Southern California Edison, which are in progress. Superior Court litigations are suspended until July 14. As discussions continue the group is speaking to cities along the coast to alert residents to the dangers of spent nuclear fuel being left in place. Ray Lutz, Citizens Oversight national coordinator, shared concern that 3.6 million pounds of nuclear waste will continue to be stored 100 feet from the shoreline and inches above the sea’s high-tide level. Also alarming is that the San Onofre site is within 50 miles of 8.4 million residents, by major roadways and close to the Newport-Inglewood/Rose Canyon fault line, which has potential for a 7.4-magnitude earthquake. Lutz is calling on
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