Wildlife Rehabilitators Unite! Game Agencies “permit” wildlife rehabilitators, those noble souls, to give aid and comfort to distressed animals at their own expense. Rehabbers must use a veterinarian, although they themselves may have more expertise…
The First Step Toward Resolving Conflict CAN WE AT LEAST ALL AGREE THAT THEY ARE “CANADA GEESE” AND NOT “CANADIAN GEESE”? PART ONE By Ann Muller Okay, I concede that one point to the wildlife…
Little did I know that my first hunting trip would change me forever. At the beginning of hunting season, my friends brought their trophies to school: chipmunk and squirrel tails, and rabbit feet. A sense…
Excerpted from Jaws of Steel BY THOMAS EVELAND, PH.D. [DR. EVELAND IS A FORMER TRAPPER WHO WRITES IN HIS FOREWORD: “IF I HAD CONTINUED DOWN THAT PATH, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT TODAY I WOULD…
Trapping for Disease Control? Reformation is Possible: A License to Kill Moving first-person account of his first experience hunting by a then-Middle School-aged boy. When he saw the sad result, the dead squirrel he shot,…
WAR ON WILDLIFE WAGED IN PARK IN UPSTATE NEW YORK By Sandy Baker Under the cover of darkness, bullets rip into the dreams of children, the peace of homeowners, and the bodies of fawns and…
NATIONAL WILDLIFE ECOLOGY DAY Luke Dommer, founder of The Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting, wrote and presented the following on the grounds of the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, New Paltz, September 28, 1991. National…
“Hope” Hope was a Canada goose illegally rescued during a legal special hunt at New Jersey’s Ringwood State Park. She had been shot in both wings and near a vital organ. Our side took “possession”…
Managing for the enhancement of yields or the survival of one species invariably affects others; benefiting some, harming some. In contrast, the ecosystem approach intentionally preserves diversity rather than doing so incidental to maximizing one…
BY ANNE MULLER PRESENTATION: Luke Dommer, the founder of C.A.$.H., said the military teaches to identify and then attack the weakest point of the enemy. Based on observation and conversation with other activists, the weakest…
