My guess is that they would use "Wildlife Services", the wildlife killing arm of the USDA. At full taxpayer expense, the USDA exterminated more than 2.7 million animals in 2004. Methods used included steel jaw leghold traps, snares, shooting, aerial gunning, "denning", and the use of poisons ranging from strychnine to sodium cyanide. Much of the killing is indiscriminant and kills non-target species including rare and endangered animals.

In the year 2000, 10 million in tax dollars were spent killing nearly 100,000 predators including bears, cougars, wolves, coyotes, foxes, bobcats, and badgers.

For additional information see:

a.. "FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KILLS MORE THAN 2.7 MILLION WILDLIFE IN '04" http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=587<http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=587>
b.. "Ten Fast Facts about Wildlife Control" http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=461&more=1cat=290<http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=461&more=1cat=290>
c.. "A presentation and analysis of the USDA Wildlife Services Program's
Expenditures and Kill Figures for Fiscal Year 2000" http://www.predatorconservation.org/about_us/research/wildlifeservicesreport2002.html<http://www.predatorconservation.org/about_us/research/wildlifeservicesreport2002.html>
To save money in killing Barred Owls, maybe "Wildlife Services" could reuse the custom designed gas chambers that they had built to kill geese in Seattle. Unfortunately, the gas chambers were too small for the geese, so they had to be stuffed in and many of them were injured or suffocated prior to being gassed. The Barred Owls should fit just fine.

Diane Weinstein
Issaquah


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From: Johnson, Mary<mailto:MJohnson at becu.org>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu<mailto:tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:46 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] Barred Owl Program--quick question


Hello Tweets,

With the Barred Owl culling program, who will be doing the killing, and
how? Just curious because I have no idea how this all works. Thanks!

Mary Johnson
Auburn, WA
mjohnsonATbecu.org



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