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Dear Friend,
We suspect you agree with the headline above. Right?
To this end we're pleased to announce our newest initiative to rid our great outdoors of the public safety menaces known as M-44 cyanide bombs, plus a quick way you can help.
Today we officially petitioned the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to ban M-44 cyanide bombs on all 193,000,000 acres of its public lands. This push comes in the form of an official Administrative Procedures Act (APA) petition, filed jointly with The Center for Biological Diversity and signed on to by over 60 conservation groups.
A key precedent to this request was our 2023 victory, in which M-44s were banned on all 245,000,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands. We firmly believe that--if wildlife, people and dogs can now enjoy all BLM lands without risking poisoning and death--they should also be safe in USFS public forests and grasslands.
How You Can Help
Here's a quick and easy way you can help us ramp up the pressure to enact a M-44 ban on USFS lands. Send an email to these two key leaders: USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack at agsec@usda.gov and U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore at randy.moore@usda.gov.
Your message can be as simple as copying and pasting this note:
Dear __________,
The past decades of M-44 “cyanide bomb” use and the thousands of unintentional deaths they caused have clearly shown that M-44s can never be used safely, as they indiscriminately injure and kill nontarget wildlife, people and companion animals.
Please fully ban M-44 use on all lands administered by the U.S. Forest Service to ensure our forests and grasslands are safe for all.
For additional information on this request, please see the APA Petition sent to your attention on Oct. 23, 2024, available at https://www.predatordefense.org/docs/M44_petition_USFWS_10-23-2024.pdf.
Thank you for your consideration.
[Your name here]
You can also help by sharing this email with friends and posting it on social media, and/or by making a donation to supercharge our efforts. Any amount helps and it greatly appreciated.
To learn more about cyanide bombs and their victims, visit our M-44 webpage. We especially encourage you to read the letter we received from a former top government trapper, in which he shares why trappers don't want to use M-44s, thanks us for the BLM ban, and urges a Forest Service ban.
Looking Ahead
In addition to today's petition effort and a number of past statewide bans, we continue to work toward banning M-44s on all public lands--federal, state and local. And we continue to push to end M-44 use by USDA Wildlife Services agents on private lands at the behest of ranchers.
We hope this email find you taking very good care and holding strong in advance of the November election. We also hope you'll take this moment to accept our heartfelt thanks for all you do to make the work a better place for our essential native predators--and for pets and humans in the process.
For all that is wild and free,
Brooks Fahy
Executive Director
Predator Defense
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History shows we blame predators for problems humans have caused.
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