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.

Africa asks, “Is hunting really ecotourism?”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

PRETORIA, South Africa––WildNet Africa,
described by publisher Raymond Campling as “the InterNet’s
largest publisher on African wildlife matters, is polling web
site visitors on whether they think hunting is legitimately promoted
as eco-tourism.
As ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press, the tally was
1,901 ayes (47%), against 2,150 nays (53%).
The voting, at >>http://wildnetafrica.co.za<<, may
be influential as African nations heavily dependent on tourism
strive to recover from a collapse of traffic coinciding with civil
strife in Rwanda, the Congo, the Sudan, Uganda and Kenya.
Even relatively stable South Africa is reviewing traditional
approaches to tourism and wildlife management, as transition
to majority African rule coincides with the dampening
effect on tourism of fires that ravaged Kruger National Park in
1996, together with poaching and canned hunting scandals in
and around Kruger that emerged in mid-1997. Subsistence
communities on the Kruger fringes are being integrated into the
protected area in exchange for pledges that the villagers will get
a bigger piece of the related economic action. Corporate landholders
are encouraged to enroll their ecologically sensitive
holdings in the South African Natural Heritage Programme,
instead of fencing them off and turning them into private game
preserves, a growing trend in the former apartheid nations.

Wildlife agencies demand death for killer deer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

SHEBOYGAN, Wisc.; McLEAN, Va.;
AKRON, Ohio; LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.– – A n
appealing victim, a shocking death, and public outrage,
any prosecutor knows, are the prerequisites to win capital
punishment.
Around the U.S., wildlife agencies are pressing
the case for more hunting, allegedly to kill back
suburban deer herds––and incidentally, to encourage
hunters who may not wish to go farther afield than
around the corner from a beer store.
No longer is the kill-the-deer ammunition limited
to complaints about azalea-nibbling. Now the claim
is that deer kill people. Among the recent dead were
Kali Hancock, 12, and Wanda Schultz, 32, both of
Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

FATHERS AND SONS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

CHICAGO––Part of the basis for
suspecting U.S. gun lobby involvement in
orchestrating the massive Countryside March
was the American background of march organizer
Eric Bettelheim, 46, whose Countryside
Business Group and the Countryside
Movement Ltd., formed by Lord Steel of
Aikwood, joined the British Field Sports
Society to create the Countryside Alliance.
Born in Chicago, raised in nearby
Hyde Park, Bettelheim took his first degree
at the University of Rochester, attended law
school at Oxford during the Vietnam War
years, earned a second law degree at the
University of Chicago in 1976, practiced law
in San Francisco for three years, and has
practiced in London ever since.

NATURE CONS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

Burning prairie annually to keep
woody brush down, aggressively promoted
by The Nature Conservancy on public
lands in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and
Wisconsin, may be counterproductive,
wildlife biologist Ann Swengel of Baraboo,
Wisconsin, recently told Mark Ward of the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. After a decade
of studying prairie butterflies, Swengel has
reportedly discovered that frequent burning
may be driving the most specialized and
habitat-specific species to extinction. Her
findings are supported by University of
Wisconsin at Green Bay plant ecologist
Jeff Nekola, who has found that burning
grasslands to keep out non-native plants also
tends to destroy the rare habitat-specific
species he most wants to keep. Swengel and
Nekola spoke to Ward about 18 months after
Voice for Wildlife director Davida Terry
documented Nature Conservancy duplicity
in attempted prairie restoration within the
Chicago greenbelt. TNC volunteers, Terry
found, were girdling trees and setting fires
on public lands with official approval but little
or no public awareness and consultation.

ASPCA board member shot sitting ducks

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––Three months after allegedly
shotgunning a flock of sitting ducks at a private hunting club in
a fit of pique, New York Daily News and U.S. News & World
Report chief executive officer Fred Drasner has apparently quietly
left the American SPCA board of directors, with no public
apology and––perhaps protected by his media clout––no public
statement from ASPCA president Roger Caras.
Neither did other New York animal protection groups
openly object, after the duck killing, to Drasner’s presence on
the 20-member board of the oldest U.S. humane society.
The ASPCA did not respond to either A N I M A L
PEOPLE or Chicago Animal Rights Coalition president Steve
Hindi when asked to clarify Drasner’s board status, including
the circumstances of his departure if as we were unofficially
informed he did depart.

Coon hunt benefit for St. Jude goes on

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

M E M P H I S––The 22nd annual World’s
Largest Coon Hunt, a United Kennel Club-licensed
event, will be held on April 9-11 at Parsons,
Tennessee, sponsored by Ralston Purina, to benefit
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital of Memphis.
Contestants’ dogs are not allowed to kill
raccoons, but must keep each raccoon treed until
the animal’s presence is confirmed by a judge, and
as a whole the event promotes coonhunting, in
which raccoons are routinely dismembered by dogs
or are shot out of trees and thrown to dogs.
St. Jude has often denied culpability for
the event, but has reportedly accepted $1.5 million
from it over the years without objecting to the
hunters’ use of the St. Jude name. The host organization
was incorporated in 1984 as Decatur CountySt.

Great sportsmen & women

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

New Hampshire Wildlife
Federation on executive director Mary
Barton, 55, pleaded innocent on March
4 to a poaching charge––but admitted she
used her tag on a moose shot by New
Zealand hunting preserve owner Alan
Stewart in October 1997, while she was
not present. Two other men were
charged as accessories, including former
New Hampshire state legislator and Fish
and Game Commissioner Herbert
Drake.
Wendell Locke, 61, president
of the Portland chapter of the 5,000-
member Oregon Hunters Association, is
reportedly facing possible expulsion for
participating in burning a cross on the
lawn of Oregon Humane Society director
Sharon Harmon after the 1996 passage
of a referendum ban on using dogs
to hunt bears and pumas. Locke pledged
to write a letter of apology and do community
service at the humane society
instead of facing criminal charges,

Watching the world go to hell

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

INDONESIA, THAILAND,
BRAZIL, TIBET, NEW ZEALAND,
CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA––Wildlife officials
rescued eight orangutans including four
babies from the path of flames in early
February at Kutai National Park in East
Kalimantan, Indonesia, but found the
remains of two others in poachers’ traps.
A third orang was killed on March
12 when according to Indonesian media she
apparently mistook two farmers who had
been drafted into a firefighting force for
attackers, and rushed them to defend her
baby. She reportedly bit three fingers off one
of the men before the other man beat her to
death with a machete. Antara, the Indonesian
state press agency, hinted that the men
might actually have killed the mother in
attempting to steal and sell her baby.

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