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Environmental Groups Call For End To USDA Wildlife Killing

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The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Services shows that most livestock losses come from weather, disease, illness, and birthing problems, and not predation. To accomplish this goal, they direct control methods at only the specific animal or local wildlife populations in the area where damage has occurred.

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A Connecticut Yankee Goes to Washington: Senator George P. McLean, Birdman of the Senate

10,000 Birds

Treaties trump state laws. He has consulted unpublished interviews and diaries, government documents, local newspapers, archival collections, and hundreds of books and magazines, mostly on history politics but also on other areas that impacted McLean’s life, like livestock farming.