Check out SaveConcordWildlife.org for a more colorful website about what Concord is doing to ban anticoagulants. They are voting in their spring town meeting as well. Their RESOURCES tab leads to valuable information.

Check out SaveArlingtonWildlife.org, especially their FAQ's for a well-rounded consideration of anticoagulants.

Amendment!

We will be amending our warrant article to include FGARs.

Child poisonings due to # SGARs have reduced 46-79% over the past decade along with the banning of these products in brick & mortar stores.

Child poisonings due to # FGARs have risen 60-80% over that same time period.

Source: EPA's 2020 Ecological Risk Assessment on Anticoagulant Rodenticides

California has banned them and our MA H965 and S644 include an FGAR ban.

We don't need anticoagulants to manage rodents.

No anticoagulants!

FGARs have secondary effect on wildlife, in the same way as SGARs. They were replaced in the 1970's with SGARs because rodents were developing immunity to FGARs. Though FGARs take a few feedings to kill, unlike SGARs that only require one feeding, FGARs also kill wildlife.