1. United States
2. Nev.
3. Letter

Reinstate the ban on M-44 cyanide devices on Bureau of Land Management lands. The Trump administration's April 2026 memorandum of understanding with the USDA reversed a 2023 Biden-era prohibition that protected 245 million acres of public land from these indiscriminate killing devices. That reversal needs to be undone. M-44s don't just kill coyotes. They have killed pets, injured children, and wiped out non-target wildlife including wolves, grizzly bears, and California condors. A 2017 incident in Idaho, where a boy was injured and his dog killed by an accidentally triggered M-44 on public land, is exactly why that ban existed. Nonlethal conflict management tools are available and effective. There is no justification for returning a poison bomb to routine use on land that belongs to all of us.