THE NORTH AMERICAN WATERFOWL MANAGEMENT PLAN The last time I promised to tell you about the North American Waterfowl Management Plan. If you’ve already read press releases touting the Plan as one of the greatest…
1694 – The Emperor’s New Clothes Once upon a time, a swindler posing as a tailor tricked a royal court into commissioning him to make a fine robe for the Emperor. After many months, the…
What’s the Wildlife Diversity Initiative? – Why Should Hunters Support It? Excerpt from a draft by George Lapointe, Project Liaison, Proactive Strategies for Fish and Wildlife Management [Emphasis Supplied] There’s something in the wild this…
AT THE JUGULAR VEIN OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT By Anne Muller For sure, the economic basis of wildlife management must change. But something else must change, and that’s the tenet that hunting is a legitimate recreational…
YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED? WE NEED FEES! WE NEED TWO FEES! WE NEED… By Anne Muller The precocious five-year-old son of a neighbor overheard me complain to his mother about my boiler. He insisted…
EVOLUTION IN REVERSE: THE FATAL FLAWS OF THE FOX SQUIRREL SHOOTING SCHEME By Ron Baker Is shooting Fox squirrels a biologically and ecologically sound practice? Many game managers and commercial wildlife biologists would tell you…
EVOLUTION IN REVERSE: THE FATAL FLAWS OF THE FOX SQUIRREL SHOOTING SCHEME YOU KNOW WHAT WE NEED? WE NEED FEES! WE NEED TWO FEES! WE NEED… Federal and state fees collected like mad, yet wildlife…
Table of Contents BLOOD MONEY Billions collected in federal taxes on firearms and ammunition, rather than being used to prevent crime, is diverted to recreational killers/hunters. Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 helps kill wildlife. CONFESSIONS…
STEPS TOWARD RESOLVING A HUMAN-ANIMAL CONFLICT SITUATION Part 2 Game agencies are bizarrely out of touch with the psyche of the general public. A NJ resident, who was horrified when she learned that Canada geese…
Doesn’t Like Calling it “War” A Wildlife agent criticized our last issue for calling this “war.” As we were going to print, I got a call from Marilyn Leybra, a wildlife rehabilitator, saying that she…
