Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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You are right that this shouldn't have been let out, that is why this employee should have been quickly fired, but as you know being a former fed yourself, the govt. can't simply fire someone in short order any more than so many corporations find themselves having to decide how to do it right and legal.
I'm not saying Fox news is an AR group, lets be clear, the article is written as AR fodder and it wholeheartedly supports the AR agenda thus putting it up is adding one more link for AR folks to find and read, so I consider it propaganda for them as I would assume most others would as well.
My point again, is that there are a ton of folks making this stuff front page on their facebook, youtube and forums every day, they may not have a govt. uniform but the AR folks ultimately will take from anywhere.
Here in my state, there is a massive push to get rid of calling contests and trapping on public land, and so on. Do you think they care where the media pics and videos come from?
No they don't as long as it furthers their message. In the last week I've been sent by local advocates for wildlife probably 5 different cases of dogs dying in sets in the states. These are all front page news and have nothing to do with the govt.
AR movement is the only one benefitting from this particular article, I don't think it fits with the rest of your posts about how much funding is being lost and how much we need them gone to have better nwco businesses. Those posts are on track with your pattern and where you want to go, this one is not.
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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New Ellenton Mayor Vernon Dunbar said senior residents are particularly bothered by the menacing-looking birds. Hey Paul, I caught it for you. Do vultures bother you yet?
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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No lets not cut any money from foreign add that we have been pouring billions into for years. Send more fighter jets to Syria at around 26 million each.
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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Late yesterday, the House Agriculture Committee approved its version of the Farm Bill. During the markup of the legislation the Committee addressed the issue of USDA's Wildlife Services competing with the private sector for urban rodent control. Specifically, Congressman Kurt Schrader of Oregon filed an amendment to the Farm Bill similar to the language of the Pest Elimination Services Transparency & Terminology or PESTT Act - legislation aimed at limiting USDA competition with the private sector for rodent, nuisance birds and wildlife in urban and suburban areas - areas in which private sector options are plentiful. The PESTT Act and Congressman Schrader's amendment served as an impetus for Wildlife Services' officials to meet with NPMA staff to negotiate the defining of the term "urban rodent control" - a type of work the Agency's authorizing statute does not permit it to perform. During yesterday's Committee markup of the Farm Bill Congressman Schrader offered and withdrew his amendment and Congressman Schrader and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas of Oklahoma announced to the Committee that NPMA and Wildlife Services had reached agreement on the definition of the term "urban rodent control." Attached is a letter submitted to the record outlining the agreement and pasted below is the definition NPMA negotiated with Wildlife Services. NPMA will continue working with Congressman Schrader and Austin Scott and Wildlife Services to codify and implement the definition. For the purposes of activities authorized under the Act of December 22, 1987 (7 U.S.C. 426c), the term "urban rodent control" shall mean actions to directly control mice, rats, voles, squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, woodchucks, and groundhogs in a city or town with a population greater than 50,000 inhabitants and the urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town, except actions involving: (1) federal agencies; (2) government entities engaged in a cooperative service agreement with APHIS to provide direct control of rodents as of October 1, 2013; (3) a state in which direct control of the rodent species has been expressly authorized by state law, rulemaking, or a local jurisdiction's ordinance promulgated by public notice and an opportunity for public comment or as otherwise promulgated as required and authorized by the respective state or local law; and (4) railways and airport air sides areas. APHIS will refer all requests for operational assistance with "urban rodent control" from private entities such as home and business owners and associations to the private sector.
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Re: USDA Wildlife Services ITN
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NPMA will continue working with Congressman Schrader and Austin Scott and Wildlife Services to codify and implement the definition. For the purposes of activities authorized under the Act of December 22, 1987 (7 U.S.C. 426c), the term "urban rodent control" shall mean actions to directly control mice, rats, voles, squirrels, chipmunks, gophers, woodchucks, and groundhogs in a city or town with a population greater than 50,000 inhabitants and the urbanized area contiguous and adjacent to such a city or town, except actions involving: (1) federal agencies; (2) government entities engaged in a cooperative service agreement with APHIS to provide direct control of rodents as of October 1, 2013; (3) a state in which direct control of the rodent species has been expressly authorized by state law, rulemaking, or a local jurisdiction's ordinance promulgated by public notice and an opportunity for public comment or as otherwise promulgated as required and authorized by the respective state or local law; and (4) railways and airport air sides areas. APHIS will refer all requests for operational assistance with "urban rodent control" from private entities such as home and business owners and associations to the private sector.
What is missing here that is either a rodent or mistaken as rodent? Beaver, Porcupine and if they are gonna use the word gopher they must also use the mole species too. A gopher can mean many species in different parts of the country from a ground squirrel, to a chipmunk and what we call Sandy Mounders here gopher - the pocket gophers. The law remaims too vague with out the scientific names and open to abuse by USDA WS. I wonder if Beaver was an oversight or a over the table agreement that will hurt thousands of private beaver trappers across the US. That 50,000 population guideline is gonna put a big hurt on most WCO's . If you think about it this laws creates the ability for USDA WS to expand and not decrease their predatory activities.
This is not good news. Just my thoughts?
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