From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1998:

ANIMAL PEOPLE paranoia
about suspected infiltration, disruption, and
possible use of international animal protection
organizations as cover for Central
Intelligence Agency projects surged on
October 1 when Carroll Cox of EnviroWatch
shared a set of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Division of Law Enforcement conference
notes from a meeting of May 18-20, 1993,
in Reno, Nevada.
Cox obtained the notes through a
recent Freedom of Information Act request.
Twelve attendees, none below the
rank of assistant regional director for law
enforcement, were told that “CIA has
expressed an interest in working with the
Division at the national and international levels.
A CIA section chief,” they were told,
“will speak to the agents at this summer’s
undercover school and SABS.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1998:

VAIL, Colorado––”On behalf of
the lynx,” the October 21 e-mail to KCFR-FM
Colorado Public Radio in Denver said, “five
buildings and four ski lifts at Vail were
reduced to ashes on the night of Sunday,
October 18. Vail Inc. is already the largest ski
operation in North America, and now wants to
expand even further. The 12 miles of roads
and 885 acres of clearcuts will ruin the last,
best lynx habitat in the state. Putting profits
ahead of Colorado’s wildlife will not be tolerated.
This action is just a warning.”
The e-mail was signed “Earth
Liberation Front.”
The arson came exactly one month
after U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham
dismissed a lawsuit against the Vail expansion
based on the possible presence of lynx,
brought jointly by the Colorado Environmental
Coalition, Defenders of Wildlife, the
Wilderness Society, Sinapu, the Sierra Club,
and the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project.
Lynx haven’t been seen in Colorado
since 1973, but the last one appeared in the
Vail Mountain area, and a track found there in
1991 was said to have been that of a lynx.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1998:

KENOSHA, Wisc.––A year-long dispute
over custody of the Society of St. Francis,
one of the older no-kill shelters in the U.S.,
emerged into view on August 25 when a faction
aligned with cofounder Robert E. Frank allegedly
tried to take the donor lists and office keys from a
faction aligned with his son, Dennis Frank.
Each side accused the other of gross mismanagement.
Each claims to constitute the properly
elected board of directors.
Summoned to intervene, Kenosha
County sheriff’s deputies reportedly brokered a
brief truce. On September 4, agreed the factions
in separate communications with ANIMAL PEOPLE,
they reached an interim agreement over procedures
for running the Society pending resolution
of crossfiled lawsuits.

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