From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

The Wisconsin Stewardship
Network, representing hunters and fishers,
the Sierra Club, and the Wisconsin Wildlife
Federation, a chapter of the pro-hunting
National Wildlife Federation, on Christmas
Eve 1998 issued statements recommending a
state moratorium on factory farms––in direct
opposition to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau
Federation, a frequent ally on animal welfare
issues. Stream pollution affecting fishing
is the hook-and-bullet worry this time.
The Nature Conservancy, which
refuses to accept land gifts coming with antihunting,
anti-fishing, and/or anti-trapping
easements, and frequently sponsors massacres
of non-native wildlife on acquired
property, has come under local political fire
in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey for posting
a 531-acre tract against hunting.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

A year-long dispute over leadership
of the Society of St. Francis, in Kenosha,
Wisconsin, described in the October 1998 edition
of ANIMAL PEOPLE, “has been
resolved,” Animal Lobby founder Cindy
Schultz told ANIMAL PEOPLE on December
18. “I am the new president of the Society. The
faction opposing Bob Frank,” who was
cofounder and until November 1997 the president
of the Society, “is gone. Bob will remain
on the board,” Schultz added. Incorporated in
1975, the Society of St. Francis is among the
older no-kill shelters in the United States.
Robin Baird, the Canadian marine
mammologist who founded the MARMAM
electronic bulletin board for marine mammal
researchers, has become research director for
the Pacific Whale Foundation, succeeding Paul
Forestell, who remains PWF vice president.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

The Humane Society of Boulder
Valley, providing animal care and control service
to Boulder, Colorado, and shelter service
to all other jurisdictions in Boulder County
except Longmont, has now gone three years
without killing any dogs or cats who could be
saved, executive director Jan McHugh recently
told ANIMAL PEOPLE. Of the 6,400 animals
HSBV received in 1998, McHugh said, 3,341
were adopted to new owners, and 1,800 were
returned to their former homes. McHugh credited
microchip ID with boosting cat rehoming to
24%, eight times the U.S. average, and dog
rehoming to 86%, double the U.S. average.
“Unfortunately,” McHugh added, “729 animals
who suffered from severe injuries or extensive
health or behavior problems had to be euthanized.”
The euthanasia ratio for the HSBV service
area is 4.2 animals per 1,000 residents.
HSBV neutered 4,065 animals in 1998––more
than most humane societies serving communities
with many times the human population of
Boulder County (226,000; 175,000 excluding
Longmont).

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

Animal welfare, The Chronicle of
Philanthropy reported in December 1998, is
the favorite charitable cause of only 1% of the
wealthiest Americans as surveyed by the investment
management firm U.S. Trust; is the #2
cause of only another 1%; and rates third for
4%. All nine other major charitable categories
in the survey rated at least half again more
favorably at every level of priority. As a cause
to volunteer for, animal welfare rated worse,
outweighed by a factor of at least 2.5 at each
level of priority. Ninety-three percent of the
wealthiest Americans said they did not expect to
increase their support for animal welfare during
the next three years, 5% said they would
increase it, and 1% said they would reduce it.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––The American
SPCA on January 5 named Larry Hawk,
DVM, as president, to succeed Roger Caras,
now president emeritus after a seven-year
presidential tenure.
Hawk, 43, “started his career as a
small animal veterinary practitioner before
working in the sales, marketing, and development
of products for Hill’s Pet Nutritiion,”
said ASPCA spokesperson Peter Paris.
“Most recently, Hawk served as president of
PETsMART Veterinary Services and
President of PETsMART Charities.”
Hawk’s appointment put former
PETsMART Charities chiefs in charge of the
oldest humane societies on either coast, as
Ed Sayres became president of the San
Francisco SPCA, succeeding Richard
Avanzino, just four days earlier.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

INTRODUCTION
The financial data below pertains to animalissue-related
charities whose IRS Form 990 filings came
too late to abstract in our ninth annual “Who Gets The
Money?” charts, published in December 1998.
Each charity is identified in the second column
by apparent focus: A for advocacy, E for education,
V for vivisection, pro or con. We review the filings
of animal-issue charities of many types and perspectives,
but none of other types sent Form 990 late.
Charities often declare to the IRS a balance of
program vs. fundraising and maintenance expense
(overhead) which differs from the balance as it would be
computed using the voluntary National Charities
Information Bureau guidelines. Thus the % c o l u m n
states each charity’s overhead costs as declared, while
the ADJ column states those costs as they would appear
had the NCIB guidelines been followed.

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