http://www.usda.gov/oig/rptsauditsaphis.htm

USDA is being investigated.
Let the OIG know about the issues you are having with Wildlife Services.

Wow.
Money well spent! What a contract no wonder NYS is broke.
Last year USDA was Operating on a budget of $385,000(the amount of their contract) took out 36 wild boars at a cost of $10,694 per pig.

http://www.syracuse.com/outdoors/index.s...00_per_pig.html

What a croc full. They have essentially protected an invasive specie in the name of "what works", at an outrageous cost to the public tax payer. Other monetary inflation soon to follow. Pure stupidity!

I have a foia request response back from Wildlife Services. Is there a way I can post it on here?

I was recently interviewed by CBS regarding DEC'S 1.5 million dollar contract with USDA to control feral swine. So far the contact is costing NYS over 10k per pig. Where is your tax $'s and licence fees going?

The private sector can do it better than the federal government at a lower cost. This is an example of crony federalism. Our state is giving up it's rights and responsibility to manage and protect our wildlife at a great cost.

Here is a link to the story.

http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/features/...html?wap=0&

Great post but don't you start worrying every time you see two guys with suits and sunglasses in a late model dark colored car?

Ha Ha, I know.........

On the bright side, one of our Wisconsin representatives has introduced a bill to dissolve the ATF. Can the USDA be far behind?

There has actually been bills introduced to do the same. they didnt get very far. about as far as the ATF bill will get.

USDA Wildlife Services doing Pigeon Control

http://www.nvdaily.com/news/2014/07/usda-helps-rid-strasburg-of-pigeons.php

Just had to read far enough down to see the city manager states bats are invasive species to know how much he understands wildlife issues......

Off topic and not your point I realize but very sick of seeing folks quoted who have no clue about basic things like native versus non native wildlife.

Thanks, wildlifeus. This may sound incredibly stupid to most of you and not so much to some. The fact of the matter is, if I could

constantly catch rabbits in the summer, ( Like I can when there is snow on the ground ) and catch coyotes, instead of the dog that's

running loose, I could increase our earnings by probably 25 to 30 percent! ( Quite obviously, I have no question that in the 26 years

that we have been in business, this is the absolutely worst year for calls on both coyotes and cottontails )

The government can solve all of our problems.

http://www.starherald.com/news/local_new...22fcfcfd1b.html

What sometimes rankles me is that the government's customers would rather sell out for the government guys to do the work. There is saving money by paying less, but then there is selling out your neighbor by hiring the Feds. Perhaps one day we will have federal plumbers.

Our company covers Milwaukee county and the the two counties immediately north ( Ozaukee and Washington ) and the county directly

west, Waukesha. If I have ever read or heard of Federal wildlife control in these areas, I've apparently missed it. If there is

anything going on in my area that you know about, please tell me. Or better yet, tell me where to look so I can monitor it myself.

Notice of Availability - Decision for the Environmental Assessment: Marsh Restoration and Nutria Damage Reduction
08/20/2014
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Wildlife Services (WS) program has issued a Decision and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for an Environmental Assessment (EA): MARSH RESTORATION AND NUTRIA DAMAGE REDUCTION that evaluated potential impacts to the quality of the human environment from the implementation of a nutria damage management program. The EA analyzed the potential environmental impacts of alternatives for WS and the USFWS involvement in nutria damage management in Maryland and Delaware. A Decision and FONSI was issued on August 14, 2014 selecting to implement the proposed action alternative. Based on the analyses contained in the EA and the associated Decision/FONSI, it was concluded that implementation of the proposed action alternative would not have a significant impact upon the quality of the human environment. You can view the EA and the Decision/FONSI on the APHIS webpage by clicking here. If you would like a copy of the EA and/or the Decision sent to you by mail, please submit a written request to USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services, 1568 Whitehall Road, Annapolis, MD 21409, or send a request by facsimile to (410) 349-8258. When submitting a request by mail or by fax, please include a mailing address.

Of course they found no significant impact. Why would they? Or, Why would they find that what they are involved with takes away from the American public by taking away tax paying jobs from tax paying companies? Why would they find that using our taxes to provide overpriced and often inefficient/incompetent services hurt the American tax payers? Why won't they look at the overal negative effects of their agency with all the combined services they do, that private industry can do and does better, including NEPA and FONSIs, and EAs and EIS? This to me, is just the Feds selling out our nation and our people.

Do you have a plan for changing this FONSI? What can I do to help? Bill clay already know what i think of him and his criminal agency.

p.s. Thanks wildlifeus for bringing this critical information to light. The amount of taxpayer dollars spent by the Feds that should be earned by the private sector is very significant. In nv alone millions of tax payer dollars are spent 'tax deferred' by ws to poorly provide the services my company and several other companies in nv provide. What that means is rural jobs are lost because the Feds claim to be doing them. Additionally tax revenues are also lost, including city, county, state and federal taxes that our for profit companies pay, or would pay.