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EPA Reverses Approval for Poison Traps Used by Ranchers

Associated Press

   The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday reversed its
   preliminary decision allowing continued use of deadly sodium cyanide
   traps, blamed for injuring people and pets as well as their intended
   targets of coyotes and other predators.

   EPA head Andrew Wheeler said in a statement he had decided the agency
   needed to do more analysis and consulting regarding the so-called M-44
   traps, devices embedded in the ground that look like lawn sprinklers
   but spray cyanide when triggered by animals attracted by bait.

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