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Hours after Uvalde school killings, Iowa lawmakers authorize AR-15 deer hunt

May 26, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

New doe-and-fawn season DES MOINES,  Iowa––Hours after Salvador Ramos used an AR-15 automatic rifle he gave himself as an 18th birthday present to massacre 19 fourth graders and two teachers in Uvalde,  Texas,  the Iowa state house of representatives ratified a bill to create a special January antlerless deer hunting season for AR-15 users. The […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Deer & other horned species, Disasters, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, Urban wildlife, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Joe Biden, Ken Rozenboom, Kim Reynolds, Merritt Clifton, Newtown, Parkland, Salvador Ramos, Todd Prichard, Uvalde

$350 million for animal crossings, but zip for roadkill avoidance education

November 26, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Win for HSUS is a gain,  yet not the most cost-effective way to save animal & human lives on highways             WASHINGTON D.C.––The first official U.S. national commitment to preventing roadkills of wildlife appears to have been buried deep within the $1.3 trillion Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act signed into law U.S. President Joe Biden […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Laws & politics, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Dayton Stoner, Delos Culver, Joe Biden, Lilian Christianson, Merritt Clifton, Richard Nixon, Sara Amundson

Hunters & birders get boost under Biden

May 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Biden administration claims credit for unprecedented expansion of hunter access to National Wildlife Refuges initiated under Trump WASHINGTON D.C.––Why would the Joe Biden administration want to claim credit for one of the most odious actions of the Donald Trump administration pertaining to animals and habitat? Specifically,  the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service under Biden appointee […]

Filed Under: Birds, Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Fish, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Daniel Jorjani, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Martha Williams, Merritt Clifton

Trump appointee cut deal with NRA to boost hunting on the way out the door

January 19, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

But National Rifle Association declared bankruptcy two days later             WASHINGTON D.C.––U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service director Aurelia Skipwith on January 13,  2021,  a week from the end of the Donald Trump presidential administration and probably not much longer from her own replacement,  signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Rifle Association “to assist […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Hunting & trapping, Laws & politics, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aurelia Skipwith, Clare Duffy, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, John Frazer, Josh Powell, Karl Racine, Leo Giacometto, Letitia James, Merritt Clifton, Wayne LaPierre, Wilson Phillips

Dogs replace SOB in White House. Pro-animal legislative candidates fared well too!

November 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

More than 400 legislators endorsed by animal groups were elected or re-elected on November 3,  2020  WASHINGTON D.C.––President-elect and new First Lady Joe and Jill Biden,  to be inaugurated on January 20,  2021,  will bring to the White House with them their two German shepherds,  Champ and Major,  ending the only four-year dog-less stretch in […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Feature Home Top, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, USA Tagged With: Ashley Biden, Don Young, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Martha McSally, Mike Markarian, Sonny Perdue

Jill Biden upstages vegans’ attempt to upstage husband Joe

March 5, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Kept “Let Dairy Die!” signs from grabbing more than a split second of TV time LOS ANGELES––Michael Bloomberg and spokespersons for Direct Action Everywhere sounded much like each other on March 4,  2020,  congratulating themselves for fiascos that respectively knocked Bloomberg out of the U.S. presidential race and made a national heroine of Jill Biden,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Ag-gag laws, Animal organizations, Cattle & dairy, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Hooved stock, Laws & standards, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Ashley Froud, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Ellen Cranley, Jill Biden, Joe Biden, John Sexton, Kecia Doolittle, Maria Cramer, Merritt Clifton, Priya Sawhney, Sarah Segal

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