Figures Don’t Lie But Liars Figure
By Peter Muller Our adversaries frequently claim statistics that purport to show how their numbers are not really declining as rapidly as they, in fact, are. To confront these bogus claims takes time and effort…
Hunting Can Increase The Severity
U. of Georgia researchers created a “detailed mathematical model that demonstrated how the combination of hunting and factors such as birth season and mating season influence disease outbreaks. Their results suggest that wildlife managers and…
Murder In An Alaskan Forest
by Walter Brasch No one—at least no human—knows his name, or even if he had a name. We don’t know where or when he was born. We know nothing about his life. But we know…
Unequal Justice Under Law
By Peter Muller A fundamental basis of the Constitution is that all citizens are entitled to equal protection under law. This is usually interpreted to ensure that all citizens are treated equally when rights and…
What we’ve been up to at Wildlife Watch/C.A.S.H.
Pro-Active Campaigns One of our pro-active campaigns at Wildlife Watch has been to advocate the establishment of wildlife watching facilities. We’ve already touched on the prospects of establishing a wildlife watching facility at the site…
Clearly There’s no need to kill…
Thanks to Natalie Jarnstedt for sending us this item from The Greenwich Time. Once again, game agencies are talking about killing mute swans. About 100 mute swans have been counted in Greenwich area. Some environmental agencies consider them…
Time To Re-Evaluate Hunting With Hounds
Marlene A. Condon In the wake of Michael Vick’s conviction for animal cruelty because of his participation in dog-fighting, it is time to re-evaluate the old Virginia tradition of hunting with hounds. This activity, which…
Animals No Longer Useful to Hunters Are Cruelly Abandoned
In our last issue of the Courier, C.A.S.H. focused on hunting with dogs. As we’re continuing to write about this, we are grateful to our longtime member, Richard Firth, for sending us the article below. Extracted…
Hunting’s Connection To Human Crime
Priscilla Cohn sleuthed the following: In Omaha, NE, 19 year old Kyle Bormann shot and killed a young woman. He used a high-powered rifle to shoot a stranger, Brittany Williams, who was going through a…
Protection From Hunters Needed
Herman Lenz, a longtime C.A.S.H. member in Iowa, has suffered from a lack of hunting laws to protect people who live where there is hunting. We have weapons that now shoot farther and are more…