(US Forest Service Standard Procedure) Yes, There Is a Right Way to Blow Up an Animal Carcass

IO9 ^ | Apr 18, 2012 | Robert T. Gonzalez

[DogByte6RER]

Yes, there is a right way to blow up an animal carcass

This, according to the US Forest Service document entitled "Obliterating Animal Carcasses with Explosives," is the right way. See those rectangles? Those represent sticks of dynamite. Their placement demonstrates how they should be positioned in order to achieve what the document calls "total obliteration."

Pro-tip: The diagram up top illustrates how to explode a carcass when it needs to be eliminated quickly and absolutely. Under less urgent circumstances, the explosive placement illustrated below (corresponding to "partial obliteration") should suffice.

Pro-tip #2: In some cases, it is probably best to err on the side of caution and just go with wholesale vaporization, lest chunks of rotting animal remains rain down from on high.

[Slings and Arrows]

Generally when there’s an animal carcass in our woods, the dogs eat it, and then they come into the house and throw up all over the rugs.

o/~ It's the cirrrrrcle of life... o/~

[shibumi]

[Slings and Arrows]

Mu!

[tet68]

Those people obviously have more explosives than they
need. A whole spool of primacord to blow up a critter?
Thats crazy.

[riverrunner]

When Back packing in the Bob MARSHALL willderness I talked with a guy whos job was to blow dead critters up.

If they died to close to the trail or camp sites he would despose of them. To lessen the change of bear human conflect.

[tet68]

Hahaha. Horse shoes should be removed prior to
detonation to prevent flying debris.

Linear explosive, not familiar with that, after my
time, looks like fun though.

[shibumi]

~OR~

(Hail, Eris!)

[luvbach1]

They just need to seek the counsel of would-be Muslim suicide bombers.

[Slings and Arrows]

All hail Discordia.

[GeronL]

I have never heard that we routinely blow up dead critters instead of letting nature take its course.

[jospehm20]

I think it is a combination of PC education, AA and the Peter principle thta produces the “best and brightest” of our government.

[CtBigPat]

Explosives are Magic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6XhWKvmONA

[Slings and Arrows]

Friendship is explosive!

[CtBigPat]

/)*(\

[TigersEye]

That’s one heck of a lot of explosives to remove one carcass. No wonder this country is in debt.

[trailboss800]

Do these a_holes understand that the animals are not really gone, rather they’re just spread out. The same mass of rotting animal still exists. What is natural about this? What would the goberment say if a citizen wanted to do this? Idiots...

[freebird5850]

ping for later booming!

[Envisioning]

LOL! Exploding cows (((ping)))!