In the Presidio, efforts to re-plant the historic parade ground as a lush and hopefully not pockmarked public space are under attack from below. As Curbed reported recently an army of gophers is causing a problem for crews laying down the newly green lawn (which has been an historic parking lot since 1937).
In an effort to battle the subterranean mammals, crews are laying down "gopher cloth", which is apparently a humane way of preventing the adorable, yet troublesome animals from digging all manner of ankle-spraining, bocce ball-swallowing holes in the field's surface.
Although the vegans and animal rights folks may be pleased to learn about the sympathetic solution, we ought to remind the animal lovers that the circle of life dictates the gophers are also well-loved by the local coyote and raptor populations, but for different reasons. And yes, as Curbed points out, there are plenty of other methods of population control going on that we'd rather not think about.
