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18. The USDA's War on Wildlife

Thank you for your interest. There is so much to this topic of public lands ranchers aka welfare ranchers.
Here is another part of it...

The USDA's War on Wildlife
We're working to reform an utterly misnamed program within the USDA called "Wildlife Services." They have historically killed millions of wild animals each year using methods that endanger humans and kill countless pets. Their methods are also cruel, indiscriminate, ineffective, and funded by tax dollars.

Overview & Kill Data
Wildlife Services is a strategically misnamed federal program within the USDA that wastes millions of dollars each year killing wild animals with traps, snares, poisons, gas, and aerial gunning at the request of corporate agriculture and the hunting lobby. According to their official reports, they have slaughtered close to 30 million animals in just the last decade. Even worse, we've had whistleblowers tell us repeatedly that Wildlife Services' real kill numbers are significantly higher, just not reported.

In 2020 alone they claim to have killed 1.5 million animals, including 433,192 native wildlife species. These kills include the following vital native predators:

62,537 coyotes (plus unknown # of pups in 252 destroyed dens)
2,527 foxes
685 bobcats
434 black bears
381 gray wolves
276 mountain lions (cougars)
The officially released data on animals killed is available on the USDA website. The presentation is not exactly user-friendly, which is telling.

More at link:

https://www.predatordefense.org/USDA.htm