Half the sea lion pups died at La Jolla Cove. People are arguing about cones

Half of the sea lion pups born this season at La Jolla Cove have died, Boing Boing reports, citing the Sierra Club Seal Society. That's a stark contrast with the roughly ten percent death rate in a nearby stretch of coast that's closed to visitors. The seal society wants to place cones marking a twenty-foot buffer around the animals, but a local beach organization argues that such a barrier would amount to closing the popular cove entirely. For now, the fate of the pups and the future of public access to the shoreline remain caught between the two camps.

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