Government hunters become poachers?
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Among the subsidies we taxpayers provide for agriculture, especially stock-raising in the West, is an agency euphemistically called "Wildlife Services," which sounds like an organization that provides salt licks or improves habitat or something along that line.
But it's the old Animal Damage Control agency under a new name. It has the same mission: professional government hunters going out to kill predators, like coyotes and mountain lions, that go after cattle and sheep.
Now there's an account of "poaching" by Wildlife Services hunters. One of the hunters in Nevada reported -- to both his regional office and to the FBI -- that some of his colleagues illegal killed mountain lions from government airplanes.
And in return for his diligence, he got fired because his job was eliminated, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. So he's filed a "whistleblower" complaint. You can read the press release here.
