Mouse plague survival guide for Rural Lands Protection Board staff

In late July 1999, a landholder phoned his local RLPB saying that he had finally worked out what was knocking the pods off his very healthy canola crop. It was mice.

This started what was to become a very large and expensive program not only for landholders but also for Rural Lands Protection Boards.

This guide is intended to be a basic, easy to read outline of what seemed to work in the 1999 plague. It is aimed at Rangers, Office staff and Boards. This guide aims at helping this audience to get through a “mouse event”, not to become an expert on mouse numbers, activity, monitoring, breeding etc.