Day: October 24, 2013
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Rat Island, Alaska is rat free for the first time since the 18th century
Real wildlife takes island back after rats poisoned. Island renamed Hawadax Island The brown rats showed up on this 9 by 3 mile Aleutian Island in 1780 on the wreck of a Japanese ship. It is one of 16 islands close by and also part of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The national wildlife refuge contains…