Stopping Brown Tree Snakes
State House Rep. Barbara Marumoto says she will introduce legislation to restore Department of Agriculture cargo inspections of brown tree snakes.
Marumoto says budget cuts led to the program lapsing.
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Guam has 15,000 snakes per square mile that have eaten many birds, frogs as well as small pets.
The snakes have also disrupted electrical power when the snakes short out transformers. With increased military and civilian flights expected from Guam, Hawaii can inherit this problem. Besides affecting our environment, the brown tree snake could easily devastate our poultry and egg industry.
