I think it’s safe to say that this couldn’t be called a trend, but last year a funding shortfall for USDA Wildlife Services shortened their coyote killing season by two months in Montana while at the same time the number of domestic sheep that coyotes killed ended up being lower by 1,900. The effectiveness […]
Continue Reading →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 →Contained in the annual wolf report to be released later this week by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) are the findings of a panel formed to review livestock depredation investigations attributed to wolves. In at least three cases ODFW found that there was insufficient evidence to support a conclusion that wolves killed […]
Continue Reading →The Los Angeles Times has picked up the story on the “Killer Bee” Wildlife Services plane. Well, finally the general public can see some sense of what they’d like to keep hidden out in Idaho.
Federal use of aerial sharpshooters to kill wolves draws fire, By […]
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 →There is a fight going on in Oregon between wolf advocates and ranchers. Nothing new right? Well, this one has a twist. As it stands now, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) biologists are who make the determinations as to whether a wolf is responsible for killing livestock or not. Ranchers don’t like that […]
Continue Reading →John Peavey, a former Idaho politician, and Diane Josephy Peavey, a former commentator on Boise State Public Radio, who’s Flat Top Ranch near Carey, Idaho has reportedly received payments totaling $970,139 from 1995 through 2010 according to the Environmental Working Group’s Farm Subsidy Database, has received another subsidy in the form of 3 dead […]
Continue Reading →American Sheep Industry Association asks key U.S. Senator not to cut funding for notorious wildlife killing agency-
The President has proposed cutting the budget of USDA Wildlife Services by 10-million dollars. President Obama said there needs to be shared sacrifice although so far it seems to be teachers, police, sick people, students, science, reproductive health, […]
Continue Reading →115 groups call for the end of the agency which kills 1 million animals each year.
Call for end to USDA’s wildlife killing agency
SCOTT SONNER
The Associated Press
Coyote killing jumps in Wyoming: Infusion of WY state funding leads to record killing by federal agents. By Chris Merrill. Casper Star Tribune.
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