NRDC tells us that the Department of Agriculture spends $100 million annually to kill wildlife that agribusiness deems to be "pests". The division, inappropriately named"Wildlife Services", spreads poisons across millions of acres of public lands. Its agents use two of the most lethal toxins known, Compound 1080 and sodium cyanide intending to kill predators, but which are indiscriminate and kill any animal that comes in contact with them. If you and your dog should be walking in a national forest and your friend becomes the victim of a M-44 spring loaded trap, be prepared to bury your dog. The fiendish device shoots a pellet of cyanide directly into the investigating animal's mouth, insuring a painful and slow death. Help NRDC convince Secretary Tom Vilsack to stop the senseless poisoning of our environment in favor of more effective and less indiscriminate methods of controlling wildlife populations.[photo courtesy of USDA]