Coastal Commission plan to kill rodents in Farallon Islands gets mixed reaction

The California Coastal Commission has approved a federal plan to drop cereal bait with rodenticide onto the South Farallon Islands to kill an invasive mouse population.

The 211-acre Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco have served as an essential breeding site for various populations of seabirds, including half of the fragile Ashy storm petrel population. But it has also been plagued with an invasive species of mice since the 1800s.