The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is seeking public comments on Predator Damage and Conflict Management in Wyoming. The APHIS is offering 5 different alternatives to consider. The first is to basically keep things as is and allow Wildlife Services to use full range of lethal and non-lethal control methods.
The other alternatives are:
Alternative 2) discontinue all Wildlife Services-Wyoming involvement Predator Damage Management ("PDM")
Alternative 3) Wildlife Services-Wyoming is restricted to using only nonlethal PDM methods
Alternative 4) restricts Wildlife Services-Wyoming to using or recommending only nonlethal methods
Alternative 5) requires livestock grazing permittees, landowners or resource mangers to: show evidence of sustained and ongoing use of nonlethal techniques aimed at preventing or reducing predation prior to receiving assistance with legal PDM methods from Wildlife Services-Wyoming
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Please submit a comment BEFORE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16. Please re-word 2 to 3 of the talking points below into your own words to avoid duplication. Submit your comment here.
- I support Alternatives 2 and 4.
- In September 2016, a study led by Aidan Treves, found that nonlethal methods were generally more effective than lethal methods for preventing carnivore predation of livestock.
- The same study found that lethal methods - in particular government culling and regulated public hunting - backfired, leading to increases in livestock predation in some cases. By contrast, none of the nonlethal methods resulted in counterproductive impacts.
- Native carnivores are important keystone species, impacting the entire ecosystems in which they live. They are a true public trust asset and should not be killed to benefit livestock producers.
- The best available scientific evidence supports nonlethal methods of predator management instead of lethal methods.
- Effective use of nonlethal methods preserve both predators and private livestock.
Thank you for your support!
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