[Rockhounds] Being a rockhound can be hazardous out west.

[J Bryan Kramer]

They supposedly dropped the HCN bomb idea so you are safe. Unless they
go back to the sodium fluoride guns.

BK

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Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what
thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

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J Bryan Krämer       North Florida, USA
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 9:46 PM Paul <etchplain at att.net> wrote:
>
> Being a rockhound can be hazardous out west.
>
> First, there are manmade hazards:
>
> ???Cyanide bombs??? use reauthorized to kill wild animals
> The traps have caused unintentional deaths, but Wildlife
> Services can continue to employ them to protect livestock
> and farm crops. Jimmy Tobias Hugh Country News
> https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildlife-cyanide-bombs-use-reauthorized-to-kill-wild-animals
>
> Finally, nature presents it own hazards.
>
> Wildlife Staff Outside Denver Work To Stop The Spread
>  ??Of Plague Among Prairie Dogs, Heard on All Things
> Considered, August 21, 2019
> https://www.npr.org/2019/08/21/753213208/wildlife-staff-outside-denver-work-to-stop-the-spread-of-plague-among-prairie-do
>
> Plague wipes out prairie dogs, ferrets at Montana's UL Bend
> Karl Puckett, Great Falls Tribune, May 23, 2019
> https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2019/05/23/plague-wipes-out-prairie-dogs-ferrets-montanas-ul-bend/1208628001/
>
> Plague-infected prairie dogs prompt shutdowns
> near Denver. Fleas can spread it to pets and humans.
> By Morgan Krakow , Washington Post, August 18, 2019
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/08/18/plague-infected-prairie-dogs-prompt-shutdowns-denver-fleas-can-spread-it-pets-humans/
>
> Yours,
>
> Paul H.
>
>
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