SPORTSMEN & SPORTSWOMEN

May 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

The Oregon Hunters Association
on April 12 removed Portland chapter president
Wendell Locke of Forest Grove from
office for admittedly burning a cross on the
lawn of Oregon Humane Society state director
Sharon Harmon in April 1996, but did
not expell Locke from membership.
Mary Shriver, 55, executive
director of the New Hampshire Wildlife
Federation, on April 1 pleaded guilty to illegally
allowing her tags to be used on a moose
killed by New Zealand game preserve owner
Alan Stewart, and paid a fine of $300.

People

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Ed Sayres, head of the American
Humane Association animal protection division
1995-1997, has been named director of
PetsMart Charities, succeeding Lynn
Stullberg, DVM.
Jim Tedford, executive director
of the Louisiana SPCA in New Orleans
since 1995, resigned effective April 24 to
become executive director of the Rochester
and Monroe County Humane Society i n
Rochester, New York. Before taking the
New Orleans post, Tedford staffed the former
Humane Society of the U.S. regional
office in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Activists & Organizations

Tourtellotte wasn’t slow

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

AUGUSTA, Me.––Maine Inland
Fisheries and Wildlife commissioner Lee
Perry on March 17 named Tim Peabody, 38,
of Northport, a 14-year staffer, to succeed
Dan Tourtelotte, 44, as head of the Maine
Warden Service. Peabody was promoted
ahead of seven senior officers.
Tourtelotte quit on March 6 to
become general manager of the New
England Outdoor Center in Millinocket, a
whitewater rafting firm––a job he accepted,
Roberta Scruggs of the Portland Press
Herald reported, during the same March 4
meeting at which a bill easing rafting rules
was approved by the Maine Legislature’s
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee.

PORK BARREL POLITICS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Manitoba “is offering Ducks
Unlimited up to $1 million over the next five
years to subsidize operations at its Canadian
headquarters,” Canadian Press reported on
March 18, “amid rumors it was planning to
relocate.” The headquarters, built in 1994 on
a former protected wetland with the help of $2
million from the Western Diversification
Fund, has reportedly become a political and
fundraising liability to Ducks Unlimited.
Word of the possible move reached the
Manitoba government via an anonymous letter
in a DU envelope.

British rural leaders of (criminal) conviction

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

George Lyon, 41, of Kildavannan
Farm, Rothesay, Isle of Bute, newly
elected president of the National Farmers’
Union of Scotland, was fined £250 on
March 30 for allowing seven ewes to be
transported while sick and unfit, and £150
more for allowing a ewe with a damaged
knee joint to suffer pain and distress.
David Watkiss, 58, owner of the
unincorporated Rare Breed Animal
Conservation Trust in Prestwood, Buckinghamshire,
was jailed for three months
and banned from keeping animals for life on
March 26, after conviction on 36 counts of
cruelty for starving a herd of pigs. Watkiss’
business partners, Jeremy Smith a n d
James Cozens were fined £1,200 and
£1,450, respectively, for allowing the suffering
to continue.

“Euthanize the Summit,” says Berger

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif.–– The
1998 Summit for the Animals, an assembly
of animal protection group leaders held annually
since 1983, met March 26-28 in
Hollywood, California, with expected
income of $17,905, of which only $11,455
had been collected. Unpaid dues and sponsorship
totaled $5,500, according to a balance
sheet distributed to participants. But even if
all debts were collected, expenses of $23,846
would leave a deficit of about $6,000.

Seeking legal weapons

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Save The Doves, after gathering
100,000 petition signatures failed to
persuade Ohio legislators to restore a
state ban on dove hunting, repealed in
1995, has until June 5 to gather another
140,000 signatures to put the matter
directly to the voters. Coordinator
Ritchie Laymon welcomes help at 1-
800-868-DOVE, or POB 21834, Columbus,
OH 43221. Save The Doves’
chief backer is reportedly the Humane
Society of the U.S., said to have contributed
$70,000 over the past three
years. Leading the opposition is the
Wildlife Legislative Fund of America,
which entered the fight with assets of $2
million––but WLFA vice president Rick
Story boasted in March that his group
has already raised about $1 million of
the $2.5 million it expects to need to
“own the airwaves” before the voting.

Hindi learns the meaning of honor among thieves, HSUS, and Hollywood

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.––Awaiting introduction
from the stage by Ark Trust founder and Genesis Awards host
Gretchen Wyler at the March 28 Genesis Awards ceremony in
the Beverly Hilton, Chicago Animal Rights Coalition founder
Steve Hindi might have thought he didn’t have to watch his
backside among the assembled celebrities and animal protection
organization leaders.
After serving five weeks of a five-month sentence in
the McHenry County Jail, for allegedly committing contempt
of court by asking hunters to stop killing geese, Hindi had been
released on appeal bond two weeks earlier by order of the
Illinois Supreme Court.
Now Hindi was to be acknowledged, for the first
time outside of ANIMAL PEOPLE, for his extensive undercover
video documentation of the use of electroshock to make
bulls buck at rodeos. Not credited on the air, Hindi’s work
was the basis for two Genesis Award-winning September 1997
episodes of the TV news magazine show Hard Copy.

PARE MEANS “STOP!”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

CAGUAS––Emilio Massas,
founder and director of Protectores de
Animales Regional y Estatal, not only
invited me to visit when I called, but
dropped everything to drive across town
and lead me to the shelter.
I had been told by Alice Dodge
of Pet Search that Massas ran the best shelter
in Puerto Rico, and therefore saved
calling him for last.
But I also had been told by others
that there were good shelters elsewhere in
Puerto Rico, only to find on a visit that
each had serious deficiencies. One location
listed as a shelter by some activist groups
turned out to be a porch with one dog. The
best Puerto Rican shelter I’d already seen,
Villa Michelle in Mayaguez, was great––if
you could find it––but was far too small to
fully serve the community.

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