Post by: Ridgeratt on August 10, 2019, 02:02:19 AM
EPA reauthorizes 'cyanide bombs' to kill wild animals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has started reauthorizing ‘cyanide bombs’ to be used as chemical traps to kill wild animals despite backlash from environmental groups.
According to CNN, the EPA is reauthorizing M-44 chemical traps filled with sodium cyanide.
The devices are used to protect livestock and protected species from predators like coyotes, foxes and wild dogs, but critics argue they could harm people and non-predatory animals.
The EPA received 20,000 letters about the reauthorization, and most where not in support of it.
A USDA cyanide trap killed a wolf in Oregon that had just been taken off the Endangered Species List.
The EPA said some restrictions are required such as tell all occupants within a half-mile radius must be notified of the device’s placement.
Oregon outlawed M-44 devices in 2019.
Interesting that this was one of the tools they used to eradicate the wolf populations. Now they are bringing them back and are describing it for this use.
The devices are used to protect livestock and protected species from predators like coyotes, foxes and wild dogs, Wolves.
Post by: baldopepper on August 10, 2019, 08:48:10 AM
Post by: Sandberm on August 10, 2019, 10:05:28 AM
My old neighbor was using some sort of poison and he ended up in the emergency room getting detoxed after he inhaled enough of it over the course of a morning of dropping bait into gopher tunnels.
Took my dog over to my brothers shop to hang out for the morning while we worked. I look over and hes munching on one of those yellow mouse bait bricks that my bro liberally throws under the bench and in corners of the shop. Fed my dog peroxide and got him to barf it up, went to pet emergency, they gave him a shot and sent us home with a months worth of pills. The dog lived.
My step son recently went to work for a pest control business. His first time going out to poison gophers he killed the customers dog when the dog somehow ate some poison. He never did figure out how the dog got the poison. His boss took the blame for not training him properly.
Had a great horned owl that lived in a tree on the farm. I go over one day and hes lying on the ground dead. You could see where he must have been sitting in the tree over head, then pooped a bunch of blood before falling. I suspect some sort of poison but cant prove it.
Post by: Fl0und3rz on August 10, 2019, 10:31:31 AM
Post by: buglebrush on August 10, 2019, 10:33:28 AM
Post by: Tracker0721 on August 10, 2019, 11:28:21 AM
Post by: bearpaw on August 10, 2019, 03:39:44 PM
Post by: KFhunter on August 10, 2019, 05:46:04 PM
Post by: Jake Dogfish on August 10, 2019, 05:54:19 PM
Oregon has already banned these, hopefully our state will get on it.
Post by: KFhunter on August 10, 2019, 06:02:26 PM
One thing Trump is consistent on is Environmental destruction. :bdid:
Oregon has already banned these, hopefully our state will get on it.
Not a Trump issue, I doubt it even crossed his desk. Let's not make this political.
Post by: buglebrush on August 10, 2019, 06:05:30 PM
One thing Trump is consistent on is Environmental destruction. :bdid:
Oregon has already banned these, hopefully our state will get on it.
Not a political issue, but introducing wolves and overprotecting predators will destroy the environment a lot more than killing predators with cyanide traps.
Post by: Tracker0721 on August 10, 2019, 06:11:55 PM
Post by: KFhunter on August 10, 2019, 06:17:40 PM
Maybe some M44's will save the Antelope from Coyotes in WA at some point, who knows :dunno: