Federal Agency planting cyanide bombs on public land may stop(theintercept.com)
theintercept.com
Federal Agency planting cyanide bombs on public land may stop
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/27/cyanide-bombs-poison-wildlife-services/
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Dollars per corpse could backfire because of the Cobra effect
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
In this case I and many others would fully support implementing perverse incentives if it meant eradicating a species that is not compatible with human civilization. That said I am open to other ideas. If they are practical I will suggest them to the game departments.
> Curlett added that 98 percent of the agency’s poison devices are placed on private lands and “only when the private, municipal, state, or federal landowner or manager requests assistance and enters a written cooperative agreement.”
"Private" land is little consolation if it's e.g. a vast unfenced grazing area. And that statement is very ambiguous - does "municipal, state, or federal"-owned land count as "private"?
Regardless, booby-trapping your own private home against intruders is illegal [1], and lethal poison traps outdoors go far beyond that.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby_trap#Civilian_use_and_le...
"Private" land is little consolation if it's e.g. a vast unfenced grazing area. And that statement is very ambiguous - does "municipal, state, or federal"-owned land count as "private"?
Regardless, booby-trapping your own private home against intruders is illegal [1], and lethal poison traps outdoors go far beyond that.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby_trap#Civilian_use_and_le...
So Kinder eggs are banned but cyanide bombs are ok
[1] - https://thepredatorhunter.com/rules-and-regulations-for-coyo...
[2] - https://idfg.idaho.gov/d7/question/license-needed-coyote-hun...
[3] - https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/scnf/specialplaces/?cid=stelp...