Notice of Hearing on the Application to Use Sodium Fluoroacetate ...

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<strong>of</strong> coyotes as 3,ueli as ncn-tjrger ;?eci?s fcl;nd in juch searckes,
#r. Randall i'ndicated tnar. this uas for 7ublic rela~ionj purgoses ~ R C
that thera was cacit understanding among field personnel ulth rihorn
he was familiar that the actual magnitude <strong>of</strong> non-target deaths not
be rz~orted.
nppr 190. Aanda! 1 resti fi ed chat he i3rX10nl y fll;!Id dezd iad~ers ,,&-, 1 ca0
baiis or ;he remains <strong>of</strong> such s~acions. de explainel ihai saocers
~ould dig a hole underneatn :he station ina atzempt to orag che zea:
into ;he hole for their winisr iaod suooi y. Ye iia7.d rba: in cne
ioring as Jany as four dead badgers hould be found in one hole. In
conrras;, Yr. Johnsan (finding :CS) s;ared ;hat he lad ooservea i
badger living under 3 bait stacion hhich ap?eared to be in ;cod heaicn
and i4r. Anderson (ii nd-ng 116) festifid :ha1 badgers frzquently
burrowed beneath bait statlcns, spending their vi nters there and us? ng
the starion as 3 food source without apparenr ill effects. He stated
thax he had observed this oersonaily on approximaiely one-half dozen
occasions and ;hat i r had wen mentioned 10 him by others as we1 I . ke
attributed an incident involving the finding <strong>of</strong> seven dead badgers at
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bait stations in Texas to improper dosage caused by use <strong>of</strong> insufficient
water in treating the horse meat bait. The LD50 for a badger is from
1.0 to 1.5 mg/kg , which indicates that a badger (average weight 19
pounds) would obtain an LCjO dose by consuming from 8.0 ozs to 13.0 ozs