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Elizabeth Furse: “It seems to me we might be able to put that money to better use in doing some other research. Perhaps if we applied more…”

On the recordJune 12, 1996
It seems to me we might be able to put that money to better use in doing some other research. Perhaps if we applied more money to research in these areas there would be greater gains. But we have had this animal predator control program since 1931, and we have today more coyotes in the United States than when they started the program but they are more dispersed, and there are other problems that have been a consequence, particularly inadvertent kills of nontarget species. Mr. Chairman, I had a constituent whose dog was killed, and when she ran to rescue the dog who had gotten into one of those M44 explosive devices, she also had a cyanide poisoning.
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Elizabeth Furse
Oregon
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Discussing the effectiveness and consequences of the animal predator control program.

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