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$1.5 million DC Cat Count: useful, make-work, or compiling a hit list?

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Counting cats in Washington D.C. & how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall             WASHINGTON D.C.––For $1.5 million,  one could catch,  sterilize,  and microchip all of the approximately 7,000 free-roaming,  not-yet-fixed cats who may be at large in the 68.34 square miles of Washington D.C.,  at an average cost per cat of […]

Sages testify about overgrazing in wild horse habitat

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Western range issues can be seen from space             BILLINGS,  Montana––No one needs to take anyone else’s word about the condition of the western range.  Monitor Google Earth for a while and ancient sages will tell you all about it. First,  though,  it is necessary to understand the evolutionary and ecological relationships among sagebrush,  grasslands,  […]

Beavers gnaw way toward wolf, grizzly & economic recovery in the Cascades

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Future of logging,  hunting,  fishing & ranching region lies with nonlethal wildlife tourism             TWISP,  Washington––Vanishing salmon,  Washington’s worst wildfire roaring through the Methow River Valley in July 2014,  and flash floods that turned roads into rivers even before Finley Canyon stopped reeking of smoke and ash have brought beaver back to the Upper and […]

Biggest pigeon shoots in years follow Pennsylvania cruelty law exemption

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Showing Animals Respect & Kindness drone shot down while videotaping the killing HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania––Live pigeon shoots held at The Berm,  near Dalmatia,  Pennsylvania,  on June 3,  2018,  and on June 4,  2018,  at the nearby Erdman Sportsmen’s Club,  appear to have been the biggest since Libre’s Law,  pushed by the Humane Society of the U.S. […]

Mike O’Connor & the Zen of saving the Olympic mountain goats

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Port Townsend author emerges as defender of mountain goats slated for extirpation “Attached is a copy of a flyer I have put together in defense of the mountain goats of the Olympic Peninsula,”  emailed Mike O’Connor of Port Townsend,  Washington,  on May 17,  2018,  in response to the May 8,  2018 ANIMALS 24-7 article Goat sacrifice to begin at Olympic National Park. “I […]

Aussie prof challenges “invasion biologists” on their own turf

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Contends “compassionate conservation” is most effective protection of biodiversity             SYDNEY,  Australia––The conservation establishments of both Australia and Israel might like to designate Arian D. Wallach an “invasive species” and slate her for extirpation. Indeed,  Wallach’s arguments could eventually put the entire global industry of exterminating “invasive species” out of business. Like any successful adaptive […]

Shoot wild horses, sell them to slaughter, or just let them die?

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Navajo Nation & BLM look at grim options  CAMERON,  ARIZONA––Why did 111 wild horses die stuck in the mud at a Navajo Nation stock pond near Cameron,  Arizona,  during the last week of April 2018? Photos distributed by Navajo Nation spokesperson Mihio Manus “showed clusters of horses with dried mud on their bodies, some overlapping one […]

Goat sacrifice to begin at Olympic National Park

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284-page “management plan” garbles history,  all but ignores climate change,  & says nothing about goats as puma prey             OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK,  Washington––An estimated 625 to 675 mountain goats whose ancestors have peaceably roamed the icy upper reaches of Olympic National Park,  Washington,  for 14 years longer than the 80-year-old park has existed are to […]

Ducks Unlimited pledge to end pigeon shoot is again a cruel hoax in Minnesota

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But Alabama Forestry Association pigeon shoot is ended, says Georgia-Pacific             MONTGOMERY,  Alabama;  PRIOR LAKE,  Minnesota––Having had four years of April Fools from Ducks Unlimited,  Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) hopes the Alabama Forestry Association was not just pranking when it announced on March 30, 2018––via Georgia-Pacific vice president for sustainability Deborah Baker––that it […]

Killing contest cancelled: hunters won’t eat crow

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Crow hunts “unwise,  unwarranted,  and cruel,”  causing “harm to the morals,” said critics––and that was in 1922!             WILLIAMSTOWN,  Vermont––Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel co-owner Mark McCarthy,  52,  has reportedly called off the crow-killing contest he had announced would be held on April 7,  2018,  with a $40-per-team entry fee,  under the auspices of the 100-member […]