1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

The Trump administration's April 2026 MOU between BLM and USDA is bringing M-44 cyanide bombs back to public lands, and I want you to oppose it through legislation in our state. California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington have all moved to restrict or ban them at the state level. These spring-loaded traps shoot sodium cyanide into an animal's mouth on contact. They kill indiscriminately, and they have no place on public land that belong to all of us. They have killed endangered wolves, grizzly bears, and California condors. They have killed family pets. In 2017, a child in Idaho was injured and his dog killed by one triggered accidentally on public land. The Biden administration banned M-44s on BLM land in 2023 for good reason. Nonlethal wildlife conflict management works. Ranchers and farmers can be supported with tools that don't poison the landscape or endanger anyone who walks on it. Reversing nearly a decade of progress to bring back one of the cruelest predator control methods in existence is not wildlife management — it's a step backward. Please enact state-level legislation to ban cyanide bombs in our state.