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The USDA will stop using sodium cyanide "bombs" in Idaho (at least temporarily) following an incident that put a 14-year-old in the hospital and killed his dog:
About a month after an anti-predator device spit sodium cyanide in the face of an unsuspecting boy and killed his dog, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it is ending its use of the M-44 mechanisms in Idaho indefinitely.
"We take seriously the incident in Idaho," Jason Suckow, western regional director of the USDA's Wildlife Services agency, told conservation groups in a letter Monday. "We immediately responded by removing all M-44s from the area, initiating an inquiry into the incident, and launching a review of current [Wildlife Services] operating procedures."
Suckow noted the agency has "removed all M-44s currently deployed on all land ownerships in Idaho" and has refrained from planting new ones.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @07:51PM (1 child)
This does not mean much larger liter sizes. The liter size is undefined, and the food per coyote is infinite, because there are zero coyotes after a successful culling. The theory that some animals just pop into existence hasn't been taken seriously for well over a century. Dead animals don't breed.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday April 17 2017, @09:00PM
Culling does not mean total extermination - it means killing the "undesirable"/ less fit members of a population. Such as those easily trapped or poisoned.
Besides which, if you've worked out a method to kill 100% of any animal population, Australia would love to talk to you about their rabbit problem, and there's a long line of others behind them.
And with litter sizes over ten in good times, coyotes can potentially recover from an 80% successful extermination in a single season (well, plus maturation delays)