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.
Continue Reading →Politicians scramble to find cuts. Now said to be chance to gut widely reviled program-
Using federal dollars to kill our native wildlife. Economic hard times would say stop that kind of funding. But will it be stopped? Predator Defense knows these federal poisoners and gunners have nine lives, unlike the bobcats and cougar they [...]
Continue Reading →George Wuerthner has authored this important report evaluating the objects of current and historical predator management and its consequences.
Management of Predators: A need for changes in policies
By George Wuerthner, May 2011 – Commissioned by Big Wildlife
ABSTRACT: Management of predators has historically been based on extirpation and/or a grudging [...]
Continue Reading →Carter Niemeyer’s memoir, Wolfer, has won the 2011 IPPY (Independent Publishers Book Awards) gold medal for regional nonfiction.
Since its release, I have run into quite a few folks who have read it. All of those I met commented on its evenhandedness. Many said their eyes were opened about the [...]
Continue Reading →George Wuerthner critiques the assumption that cougar hunting will decrease conflict with humans.
Oregon’s assumptions on cougar hunting misplaced – George Wuerthner, NewWest.net
Oregon, like many western states, allows cougar hunting. Part of the justification for hunting is the assumption that killing cougars will reduce livestock losses and increase public safety. There is, however, [...]
Continue Reading →At least in South Dakota. Hopefully more generally-
With all the budget problems, finally here is a good one — USDA Wildlife Services is running out of funding for aerial predator control.
Aerial predator control is grounded. AP
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