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According to a state records request submitted in November, as well as publicly available information on the Idaho Fish and Game’s website, there have been 193 wolves killed since April 1st of this year. The records request response contained information for documented mortality from April 1, 2012 to November 25, 2012. Since then an additional [...]
Continue Reading →Graphic photos published to a self-proclaimed USDA Wildlife Services employee’s Facebook page and Twitter account were recently brought to light by wildlife activists. Some of the photos, placed in a Facebook album called “work” and some from a public Twitter account, depict the employee’s dogs attacking defenseless coyotes, raccoons, and bobcats caught in a leg-hold [...]
Continue Reading →Not really, but why were 80% of released documents on Mexican wolf capture plans redacted?
Last August the conservation group WildEarth Guardians requested the documents about a planned removal of a female Mexican wolf whose pack might have killed up to six cattle near the SW corner of New Mexico.
Folks are often suspicious of [...]
Continue Reading →Wildlife Services has high average non-lethal record for all animals, but not for large carnivores-
Lately there has been a lot of media critical of USDA-Wildlife Services; often called by its critics something like “the federal government’s wildlife killers.” In an effort to mount a defense the Service has pointed out that 80% of its [...]
Continue Reading →Federal animal control agency meets with American Society of Mammalogists after 93 years of criticism-
The American Society of Mammalogists has been criticizing the agency in the federal government that kills “problem” predators for 93 years now. That agency has gone by many names over that long period. Wildlife Services is the most recent, and [...]
Continue Reading →4-year old sow is captured-
The Great Falls Tribune said that a sow griz killed 70 sheep “at three ranches in two weeks — including 58 at one ranch — in an unprecedented killing spree. . . [emphasis ours]. We can picture a drawing in a sensational magazine with a giant grizzly throwing hapless sheep [...]
Continue Reading →The Sacramento Bee gives citizens suggestions-
The Bee’s recent expose investigation of the activities of USDA-Wildlife Services predator control was read by many. Outrage is high and now more information is in the hands of the public. Earlier we covered efforts by two members of the House, bipartisan, to get a congressional investigation started. Continue Reading →
A rare opportunity for the public and Congress to expose and change these federal wildlife killers?
John Campbell, a Republican from Irvine, California, and Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon, want Rep. Darrell Issa, the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to hold an investigatory hearing on the activities of the [...]
Continue Reading →In the final installment of the 3-part series, Tom Knudson investigates how the role of USDA Wildlife Services may change in the future. Should the agency be disbanded? Should it be reformed and given different responsibilities like controlling only invasive, non-native species? Should its predator control program be defunded?
There is obviously a problem with [...]
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