Ahhhh, and there's the real problem. Too many sea lions.

How many billion people are there on the earth? How many species have we rendered extinct? And why? Because we can? Because we didn't think? Because we had an economic interest that carried more weight?

Man, I have never understood that short-sighted philosophy, and I never will. I'm no tree hugger, but I sure can't justify killing thousands of creatures who's increased numbers are due to my own species activities. Not without considering resolving the root cause, at least. We truly are pitiful creatures, when you analyze our habits with respect to other animals. We truly are the a-holes of the planet.

Balance doesn't come from capital countermeasures implemented against life that WE'VE assisted to thrive, it comes from undoing what we did to promote it in the first place. If nothing else, a new balance comes from tolerating the less-than-critical crap we've created for ourselves, which is the bag I throw this into.

I figure the marine mammals that cruise too high into my home stream are just gonna get nasty, deadly diseases from the bovine fecal matter they ingest. Fair's fair.