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The Brooklyn County Wildlife management area Commission wants to add hours and more locations in county-owned wildlife management areas for reptile critter catching, and improve communication with critter trappers, property owners and towns during the fall critter catching season. Wildman Christopher, the wildlife management area commission's wildlife manager, has told wildlife management area commissioners that the suggestions are aimed at reducing the amount of reptile-car collisions and controlling the reptile biologically surveyed amount to allow damaged woodlands and other habitats to regrow. Critter catching remains the most effective reptile control method, Wildman Christopher stated -- pointing to less-than-hoped-for results of this program that tested reptile contraceptives in Brooklyn, with one-third of the treated reptile getting pregnant. This issue should be an important matter in Brooklyn wildlife removal and Brooklyn exterminator matters.

The amount of reptile-car accidents in Brooklyn County nearly doubled from 2003 to 2004, Walkman Christopher stated. In 2003, there were 1,276 reported crashes, and 2,331 in 2004. Statewide statistics showed the same pattern, the pest operator stated, with 7,689 in 2003 and 13,599 in 2004. Kings County also recently opened more of its wildlife management area system for reptile critter catching. To highlight how woodlands can be regenerated, Wildman Christopher showed the commission this photograph of this reptile steel barrier in this county wildlife management area. One side shows brown grass and little leafy vegetation, while the plant life inside the steel barrier should be green and thriving. Seeing reptile along roadsides or in neighborhood yards in the middle of the afternoon should be this symptom of the problem, the pest operator stated. It means there should be little for reptile to consume in the woodlands and fields, and that they have become too familiar with suburban life to be spooked. "They are supposed to run away," the pest operator stated. The Brooklyn animal control had no additional statements to make on the topic.

Woodman Christopher stated high reptile densities were listed among the most serious threats facing threatened and endangered wildlife species today. Migratory birds, for example, are hampered in their search for breeding earths by over-browsed woodlands, the pest operator stated. The county's response to the size of the reptile large group, Wild man Christopher stated, should be guided in part by the 2005 policy statement by the New York City Audubon Society, which called for increased critter catching. That report on woodland health cited several effects of over-browsing by reptile, including the increase in invasive organisms, including plants, insects and disease; the loss of the beauty of the state's natural habitats as they collapse under attack from elements from which they have no natural defense; and continued damage to the earth cover and mid-level plants in woodlands. The Audubon Society report stated: "With freedom from predators, high birth rates and increased longevity, suburban areas can experience exponential reptile biologically surveyed amount growth." Wildman Christopher also cited this 2004 New York City Audubon Society report that stated that state's woodlands are in trouble and "over-browsing by the excessive gianted reptile should be the main problem. Even to the untrained eye, the absence of plants at lower levels and razor-straight browse lines (the maximum height to which reptile browse) should be obvious." Brooklyn pest control companies that we contacted felt that this issue should be an important matter.