2003 Fall/Winter Issue
Scientific Deer Management? The Strange Case of the Mohonk Phantom Deer
PATAKI VETOES CANNED HUNT BILL
MAINE’S COYOTE SNARING PROGRAM – AN END IN SIGHT?
GUESS WHO PROFITED FROM THE SNIPER ATTACKS?>
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state game agencies profit from excise taxes on weapons and ammunition. 11,000 gun homicides in US last year profits the agencies, but not a penny to victims’ families. Gun industry seeks protection from lawsuits, and White House likely to back them.
BUSH WANTS WILDLIFE TO PAY THEIR OWN WAY
Extinction!
Poem by M. Linda Steffey
Labor Day
Poem by John Cannon
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Deer archery season opens in Pennsylvania. Terrible suffering of wounded, slow-dying deer.
AUDUBON ALLOWS BOWHUNTERS TO KILL DEER ON THEIR PROPERTY IN GREENWICH, CT
IN REBELLION
Seeming victories in anti-hunting fight are often reversed over time. Example of stopping bear hunt on South Mountain Reservation in 2000 – now it is back. Happily, some municipalities in NJ are forbidding all hunting on their lands.
In Loving Memory
Virginia Gillas, rescuer of many animals over the years, will be sorely missed. Merritt Clifton of Animal People, told us of her loss. Fluffy, beloved feline family member, of Elisabeth Joshi, passes away at 14 years.
Animal Rights and Effective Political Action (Part III)
No Seattle Goose Kill for 2004