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Has the Guardian gotten worse or were they never that good to start with? Wildlife services is hardly a secret branch, they are also the folks who airdrop rabi
by vorpalhex 6y ago
Has the Guardian gotten worse or were they never that good to start with?
Wildlife services is hardly a secret branch, they are also the folks who airdrop rabies vaccine in remote areas. Yes they do take game from helicopter as part of their population management. Hogs in particular are frequently managed by helicopter since they like to hang out on private property.
The M44 device does have it's issues but calling it a bomb is a gross misise of words - it's a spring loaded aerosol. It's typically used for pack management especially with hogs. Most of the concern with them is downstream of the food chain - a nontargeted animal eats a poisoned carcass, dies, and then something eats those remains.
- slac 6y agoPerhaps they should be better at informing nearby citizens of the presence of these devices so that kids do not get injured.
- vorpalhex 6y agoThey do, with signs, weekly in-place checks, and usually knocking the property owners front door first. [PDF WARNING] https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-m44-device.pdf https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-m...
- hedora 6y agoThat sign is 6 inches tall, and it is neither OSHA nor ANSI style: https://www.safetysign.com/help/h55/osha-format https://www.safetysign.com/help/h55/osha-format Also, the text explaining what it does is so small you’d have to put your head near the device to read it.
- josephcsible 6y ago> Also, the text explaining what it does is so small you’d have to put your head near the device to read it. So? It's not a proximity trigger. It won't activate unless you pull on the bait.
- yencabulator 6y agoHow close to cyanide do you want to be when you read it's cyanide? These things sound quite deadly, and the regulations around them sound very lax / practically not enforced.
- josephcsible 6y agoEthylene glycol is a deadly poison too, and people get close to it on a regular basis.
- kjs3 6y agoFalse Equivalence to the white courtesy phone...False Equivalence...
- snypher 6y agoWhat say someone picks it up to read it. It's designed to be activated by being pulled from the top, the same way someone would pick it up.
- simonw 6y agoWhich bit of this Guardian article do you think is bad? They use the term "so-called cyanide bomb" because people that the story is covering have called it a bomb. The idea that Wildlife services is secretive is covered by this quote: "Congressman Peter DeFazio of Oregon, a long-time critic of Wildlife Services, has described the agency as more secretive than the Department of Homeland Security".