Brooks Fahy, of Predator Defense in Eugene, Oregon, has put together an account of Robert Norie, the owner of Bella the husky, and the ordeal they went through after Bella was caught in an unmarked USDA Wildlife Services snare set for wolves in Idaho’s Boise National Forest in August 2010.
Wildlife Services has been [...]
Continue Reading →Ethics, safety, and fair chase hunting demands people should not be able to bait coyotes and engage in “recreational” hunting from their easy chair next to their window-
On this blog we have often talked about the disproportionate favoritism that hunters generally receive over other users of wildlife. Well, recently one of my radio-collared eastern [...]
Continue Reading →In Idaho Wildlife Services has historically received most of its funding from the federal government but this year those funds were cut by $247,000. To make up for the shortfall guess where the Idaho livestock industry is going to go. Yup, you guessed it. They are going to the Idaho Legislature with their hands out. [...]
Continue Reading →Niemeyer’s Memoir Wolfer Addresses The Societal Hatred Of Lobos-
Among those who follow the wolf controversy most are now familiar with the name “Carter Niemeyer.” He is one of the few who walks right down the middle, which nowadays likely means he gets it from both sides.
Todd Wilkinson produces the Wildlife Art Journal has [...]
Continue Reading →According to Senator Max Baucus drone aircraft could potentially be used to kill predators.
“Our troops rely on this type of technology every day and there is enormous future potential in border security, agriculture, and wildlife and predator management” – Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)
The developers of the drone say that they can sense the [...]
Continue Reading →Wendy Keefover-Ring highlights Wildlife Service’s ‘War on Wildlife’ given the current budget crisis, highlighting its cost to the American tax-payer.
The Ugly Cost of Killing – Huffington Post
Many of us are struggling financially, even while we watch Congress wrangle over deficit levels, tax cuts or increases and political ideology. Much is wrong [...]
Continue Reading →“A fearful few wage war on American’s wolves. The war comes because agribusiness exaggerates and lies about wolf predation.”
Are Wolves the Real Killers ? – Huffington Post – Wendy Keefover-Ring
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the agribusiness industry can be counted among the fearful few, killing wolves with alarming readiness. [...]
Continue Reading →Moscow, ID – Today, Friends of the Clearwater and WildEarth Guardians call into question how two different federal agencies count livestock losses attributed to wolves in the States of Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The livestock death losses figures are reported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) show a remarkable magnitude of disparity from [...]
Continue Reading →Lines between Livestock, Sporting and Gun Groups Continue to Blur
John Campbell (R-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Gary Peters (D-MI) co-sponsored the bipartisan Lethal Predator Control Amendment, an amendment t0 H.R. 2112 (the Agriculture appropriations bill), which would have cut Wildlife Service’s $11 million appropriation used for a program that kills predators on behalf of [...]
Continue Reading →The Campbell-DeFazio amendment, which would have cut Wildlife Services’ “Livestock Protection” program by $11 Million, failed 132-287. Only 30 Republican’s voted for it.
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