Source: Looking back on a century of poisoning predators
Please read the article above. I promise you it will be eye-opening.
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This year, for example, marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bureau of Biological Survey. Congress created the agency a century ago to trap, poison and kill predators and “varmints” across the West. The result was an ecological holocaust of strychnine-ridden carcasses and indiscriminate destruction up the food chain. We tried to kill coyotes; we brought death to eagles instead.
The agency’s goal was to eliminate predators to foster game populations of deer and elk, and to reduce losses by stockmen who raised sheep and cattle.
Does this sound at all familiar to you in 2023?
Back in 1915, the words “ecology” and “environment” were unknown.
It seems that many of us are still struggling with these words.