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Jackson, Mississippi

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5-11-1995 12:00 AM

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ADC personnel use many wildlife damage control methods including pesticide products. This paper presents a national overview of the kinds and amounts of chemical pesticides used by ADC in direct control activities during Fiscal Years (FY) 1988-1991. The pesticides used by ADC included aluminwn phosphide, 4-aminopyridine, bone tar oil, brodifacoum, carbon, alpha-chloralose, cholecalciferol, DRC-1339, fenthion, glyphosate, immobilizing & euthanizing drugs, mineral oil, PA-14, phosphorus, polybutene, sodium cyanide, sodium fluoroacetate, sodium nitrate, strychnine, sulfur, and zinc phosphide. This summary shows that ADC personnel used remarkably small amounts of chemicals during FY 1988- 1991. Overall amounts of pesticides used by ADC have changed little since that time period, although uses of some pesticide products have decreased (PA-14 and strychnine) while others increased (repellents, glyphosate, alpha-chloralose, and the Compound 1080 LPC). Pesticide uses by ADC program personnel are increasingly limited, selective, and environmentally safe if not environmentally benign.

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Pesticide Use by the Federal/Cooperative Animal Damage Control (ADC) Program, 1988-1991

Jackson, Mississippi

ADC personnel use many wildlife damage control methods including pesticide products. This paper presents a national overview of the kinds and amounts of chemical pesticides used by ADC in direct control activities during Fiscal Years (FY) 1988-1991. The pesticides used by ADC included aluminwn phosphide, 4-aminopyridine, bone tar oil, brodifacoum, carbon, alpha-chloralose, cholecalciferol, DRC-1339, fenthion, glyphosate, immobilizing & euthanizing drugs, mineral oil, PA-14, phosphorus, polybutene, sodium cyanide, sodium fluoroacetate, sodium nitrate, strychnine, sulfur, and zinc phosphide. This summary shows that ADC personnel used remarkably small amounts of chemicals during FY 1988- 1991. Overall amounts of pesticides used by ADC have changed little since that time period, although uses of some pesticide products have decreased (PA-14 and strychnine) while others increased (repellents, glyphosate, alpha-chloralose, and the Compound 1080 LPC). Pesticide uses by ADC program personnel are increasingly limited, selective, and environmentally safe if not environmentally benign.