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Violators of trapping laws, Wildlife Services #5092089
06/21/15 02:42 PM
06/21/15 02:42 PM
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Here's an article that starts to show to what extent Wildlife Services make our industry look bad. I hope public awareness continues.

http://elkodaily.com/news/opinion/commen...2dd06d4b1f.html


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Re: Violators of trapping laws, Wildlife Services [Re: NV man] #5094696
06/23/15 10:30 AM
06/23/15 10:30 AM
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The news article, “Elko man fined for illegal trapping, keeps license” published June 12 brings up significant issues with current trapping laws, enforcement,and ethics. After a closer look, I believe the reader will find the results as outlined in the article as quite unfair.

I write this letter to highlight important issues of the livestock protection/trapping industry in Nevada. Trapping coyotes in the summertime is done primarily to protect livestock such as sheep, goats and cattle. There are few private companies involved in this specialized profession; Predator Control Corporation, and Humboldt Wildlife LLC are the only two companies I know of who offer this type of service.

The majority of summertime coyote trapping is done by USDA’s Wildlife Services (WS) and Nevada Department of Agriculture’s (NDA) Predatory Animal and Rodent Control. Private wildlife control companies are required to follow the laws. Business owners and employees face jail time, fines, and expensive legal costs if they don’t. Wildlife Services and NDA, on the other hand, do not have to follow laws and they get rewarded.

The photo shown here was taken during a whistle-blowing event involving Wildlife Services; the picture is of a coyote that died from exposure. The coyote was captured in an improperly set Wildlife Services’ snare by an NDA employee, six feet from a road here in Northern Nevada.

Wildlife Services management also illegally attempted to cover up this one-of-many incidents by claiming it was the results of a “snowstorm.”

Since the picture was taken the employee responsible for the equipment has gained a state retirement from NDA, second to his federal retirement from USDA Wildlife Services. Meanwhile WS management involved, such as WS State Director Mark Jensen, continue to make about $120,000 net income annually. Additionally, NDOW law enforcement was reported to and they did nothing.

Private companies and their customers need to meet extensive permitting and licensing requirements from the state and NDOW law enforcement. WS and NDA don’t bother with most and the ones they do bother with are rubber stamped, in house. In Nevada, the trap check interval for private companies or trappers is 96 hours. Wildlife Services and NDA check their traps once a week at most and often they don’t check traps for several weeks. They under-report the deer and non target wildlife they catch and kill and they are not even worried about getting caught by NDOW. WS doesn’t report all the non target animals they kill in traps because they might then face some political resistance from political activists.

WS is not worried about breaking laws because they have political support from various politically endowed “welfare ranchers.” The “ranchers” that support WS sit on boards and committees that funnel moneys to agency heads of WS and NDA, and hence low-cost services to themselves.

One such state level group is the Predatory Animal and Rodent Control Committee, a committee that until recently hadn’t met for about 15 years. Few on the committee don’t directly and unequally benefit from money given to Wildlife Services or NDA. The supportive “rancher” committee members and chairs get free services that would otherwise cost them thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars annually; instead they would have public taxes pay for services such as their livestock protection.

Additional to operating outside the law, WS and NDA operate as tax exempt and the services provided to the welfare rancher are also tax exempt. This, to me, is corruption. Ranchers as well as everyone else should have to pay their own business costs. State and Federal employees should have to be accountable to the law as well.

In the same industry private companies have to provide cost-effective services to the “real” ranchers that hire them, promoting effective services in a timely manner. Likewise both the company and the rancher have to pay taxes that support the communities and country they live in.

As the reader will likely see, fining and punishing Trevor Walch for violating laws while paying and giving multiple retirements to NDA and USDA-WS employees who also violate trapping laws, is unfair. If one person is required to follow the law they should all be required to follow the law. If one person is punished they should all be punished equally and fairly.

It is also unfair to provide services to a few so-called ranchers who don’t want to pay for their own livestock production costs. By the way, most of these “welfare” ranchers own vast amounts of business assets, millions of dollars worth.

My next letter could take a closer look at the humane treatment of animals, as it appears even NDOW staff provide misleading information involving the length of time it takes an animal to die from exposure. Several other important issues I may write about include: the political support web of agency heads, “welfare” ranchers and past WS employees; the political battle for money between NDOW and Wildlife Services; how Nevada sportsmen’s $3 predator control fee is used by USDA WS while in violation of Nevada laws; or the reported violation of Nevada’s Open Meeting Law by WS and Elko County Commissioners.


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