Rat Birth Control Pilot Coming To Lincoln Park As Neighbors Try Humane New Approach

Rat Birth Control Pilot Coming To Lincoln Park As Neighbors Try Humane New Approach

LINCOLN PARK — A pilot project aiming to curb Lincoln Park’s rat population with peanut butter-flavored contraceptive pellets — while ditching the use of poison — is set to launch this summer.The trial will test a non-toxic form of rat birth control in targeted parts of the neighborhood and is part of a growing effort to shift away from traditional rodenticides, which advocates say are both ineffective and harmful to birds and other urban wildli…

Three reader reports from Lincoln Park

Thanks to the three readers who sent photos and info about three Lincoln Park sightings, starting with tree trouble: Huge fallen oak tree limb on the north stairs at Lincoln Park, the ones that were recently closed for the stair maintenance From another reader, this sighting of what appears to be a poisonous weed: Sharing a safety alert: there is a lot of poison hemlock growing in Lincoln Park between the south playfield and south restroom. The …

Council renames Lincoln Park Marion Elliott Park

Play ball! Those are two words that pierce the air hundreds of times throughout the year at Lincoln Park. They were uttered endless times by Marion Elliott to start Babe Ruth games he umpired at Manteca’s oldest community park.