Marmot Killing Fields

(Reno, Nevada) Oh my gawd! They're killing all the marmots in Reno. The city has even hired a marmot-killing company.

Check the comment thread to get a sense of the controversy. The "Save the Marmot" crowd pleads that they are cuddly and cute and should be relocated instead of killed. The "Kill the Marmot" people claim that they are stinking vermin, pests that carry bubonic plague.

Since I'm in Ohio and the marmots are in Nevada, I don't really care how the issue is resolved, but I'm generally an anti-vermin type of guy. On the other hand, Robert Koehler of The Marmot's Hole has a closer association with the animal so he might have some remarks.