A coalition of environmental groups petitioned the U.S. Forest Service to ban the use of M-44 devices, known as “cyanide bombs,” in national forests.
“I just can’t understand why the Forest Service won’t follow the lead of other land-management agencies that rightly recognized how dangerous cyanide bombs are to wildlife, people and their pets,” said Collette Adkins of the Center for Biological Diversity.
The Bureau of Land Management recently prohibited the use of M-44s by Wildlife Services on their agency-managed lands, and the devices are not used on lands managed by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the Bureau of Reclamation.
