The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced it is taking action to implement a blanket ban on dangerous M-44 devices that deliver sodium cyanide on public land.
The devices, which critics and wildlife advocates term "cyanide bombs," have been used on public lands since the 1960s as a form of wildlife control. Consisting of a spring-powered ejector and a sodium cyanide capsule wrapped in a bait-scented cloth, the devices are designed to lure animals considered pests, such as coyotes, foxes and wild dogs which prey on livestock.
