DE-FOXING TO SAVE PLOVERS: I got a scathing phone call from a gal fully infuriated after getting word that lethal means are being used to eliminate foxes from the Holgate Wilderness Area, part of the Forsythe Refuge. I didn’t have the nerve to explain this is nothing new. “I’m on it, ma’am.”

The trapping and chemical killing of foxes in Holgate has been going on now for many years, even decades. It’s ostensibly meant to reduce predation on nesting bird eggs and chicks, most famously those related to piping plover nests.

While foxes have been taking the heat – along with occasional cannisters of cyanide – I feel compelled to further…