Month: March 1997

What the Strah Polls say about roadkill

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

MENTOR, Ohio––Shocked at the
carnage and curious about the impact on local
wildlife, transportation department employee
Cathy Strah some years back began counting
the roadkills collected for disposal by the
town crews of Mentor, Ohio. In 1993 Strah
began sending her data to ANIMAL PEOPLE,
as a participant in a single-year national
roadkill census we were doing, concurrent
with the separate start of the now nationally
recognized Dr. Splatt counts. The latter are
done by middle school students across the
U.S., coordinated by Brewster Bartlett, a
science teacher at Pinkerton Academy in
Essex, New Hampshire.

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The wild horse scandal that no one wants to face

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

DENVER––Wild horses rounded up by the Bureau
of Land Management and sold to slaughter hit the headlines on
January 4––again.
This time Associated Press reporter Martha Mendoza,
of Albuquerque, New Mexico, chased the perennial allegations
of BLM malfeasance by tracing paper trails, something
animal advocates have not done on any comparable scale.
“Using freeze-brand numbers and computer records,”
Mendoza reported, “the AP traced more than 57 former BLM
horses sold to slaughterhouses since September. Eighty percent
were less than 10 years old and 25% were less than five years
old.” Further, Mendoza alleged, “The AP matched computer
records of horse adoptions with a computerized list of federal
employees and found that more than 200 current BLM employees
have adopted more than 600 wild horses and burros.”

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Trying to save the Florida Keys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

TALLAHASSEE––Florida governor Lawton
Chiles on January 28 approved a plan to restrict fishing and
keep large ships out of the 2,800-square-mile Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary, created by Congress in 1990 but
stalled in debate over management plans ever since. The
agreement to ban fishing in 19 specific sensitive areas completed
a pact that also includes restrictions on reckless boating,
protection of the sea grass beds that furnish habitat to
manatees, and the funding of research to find out why coral
around the Keys, forming the only living coral reef in the
Northern Hemisphere, is fast dying off.

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LETTERS [March 1997]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

St. Hubert’s
Since we are Catholic, we
paid close attention to a paragraph in
your January/February “Religion &
Animals” column about a hunting
camp, St. Hubert’s, near Alpena,
Michigan. It seems that priests have
been killing deer at St. Hubert’s for
40 years, on the pretext of using it as
a place to “just get away.” Killing
anything is not the way to spiritual
growth, and it raises the question if
these priests are in the right profession.
They need to re-read the Fifth
Commandment.

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Editorial: Instinct vs. education

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

“A seven-year-old boy and his father were hiking through a cornfield near Green
Bay when they saw two hawks fighting,” Karen Herzog of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
recently reported. “A redtailed hawk fell to the ground, ripped open from her eye to her
beak and down her neck and breast bone. The father told his son to stay by the bird while
he got help. When the father returned, he was surprised to find his small son on the
ground, his body curled over the bird to protect her from the other hawk, who was still targeting
her adversary. The boy’s winter coat was tattered from the dive-bombing hawk
attacks, but both the boy protector and the injured hawk were safe.”

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