Category: Hunting & Fishing

Wildlife

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The World Wildlife Fund and
the National Wildlife Federation on
November 13 asked Interior Secretary
Manuel Lujan to impose trade sanctions on
China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Yemen
for permitting traffic in rhinocerous horns.
The wild black rhino population has plunged
from 65,000 to 2,000 since 1970.
The California condor who was
found dead October 8 suffered kidney fail-
ure from drinking antifreeze, the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service has determined. The
condor was one of the first two to be
released into the wild after an intensive cap-
tive breeding program. Sixty-two California
condors remain in captivity, six of whom
are scheduled for release this month.

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Hunting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

HUNTER CHARGED WITH HOMOSEXUAL RAPE
Fourteen million Americans hunted
in 1991, according to newly released U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service statistics; 34.5
million fished; and more than 76 million
watched, photographed, or fed wildlife
without feeling the need to kill.
Or rape.
Hunting critics who equate the
lethal pursuit with perversely sublimated
sexuality got an apparent case in point
November 4 when police charged hunter
Antone Mendes Jr., 40, of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, with open and gross lewd-
ness, lewd and lascivious speech or behav-
ior, assault and battery, assault with a dead-
ly weapon, attempted kidnapping, and leav-
ing a firearm in a motor vehicle unattended.
The charges allege that Mendes
sexually assaulted his hunting partner, an
unidentified 23-year-old man.

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Animal Damage Control thrown out of New Mexico: WOULDN’T CHECK TRAPS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

ALBUQUERQUE – –Living up to an old
promise, State Land Commissioner James Baca on
November 16 evicted the federal Animal Damage
Control program from New Mexico because the adminis-
trators wouldn’t agree to make ADC coyote trappers
check their traps at least once every 48 hours.
The eviction order covers six to eight million
acres of state-owned land, much of which is leased to
sheep and cattle ranchers. As environmental and animal
protection groups applauded, ranching groups called for
Baca’s ouster.

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Editorials: Thanksgiving with ANIMAL PEOPLE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:
The process of writing this editorial was interrupted when a gunshot cracked
through our woods at dusk. Rushing out to intercept a suspected poacher, I met Buddy, the
“pit bull terrier” who lives up the hill, limping up the road at great speed from the direction
the shot came. Actually an apparent Rottweiler/terrier cross, Buddy is about the color of a
deer, and it wasn’t hard to guess what had happened. But whoever fired the shot got away.
Sidling past me, uninterested in any more encounters with anyone but his family, Buddy
trotted on home. I watched him go, hoping the limp was from stumbling over something in
his haste to escape, rather than from a bullet.
As I checked the mailbox on my way back inside, five minutes later, our neighbor
came running down the hill, shouting for help. Expecting to hear of a wounded dog, I
heard instead of a mauled baby. Buddy apparently ran into the house and curled up with
something to chew, by way of settling his nerves. The five-month-old baby reached for it.
Buddy bit, just once, but hard.

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Throwing wolves and sharks to the tourists: ALASKA AND HAWAII PLAN PREDATOR MASSACRES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

JUNEAU, ALASKA––Hoping
to hype tourism, the Alaska Board of
Game on November 17 announced plans
to kill up to 80% of the 700 wolves who
inhabit the 43,000-square-mile region
between Anchorage and Fairbanks. The
same day, for essentially the same rea-
son, the Hawaii Shark Task Force
nnounced it would begin killing tiger
sharks on sight.
The Alaskan massacre is to
commence as early as January, while
shark-killing off the coast of Hawaii may
already be underway. In each case, state
officials called the killing necessary to
boost the tourist industry, but in each
case and especially vis-a-vis Alaska, the
immediate result was a wildcat (sponta-
neous) boycott by potential visitors,
which within 10 days seemed likely to
become an international campaign by
animal protection and environmental
groups.

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Election Roundup: ANIMALS WIN! Apparent Gains at Every Level

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

WASHINGTON D.C. –– Outgoing U.S. president George Bush bought a hunting
license on Election Day. Both U.S. president elect Bill Clinton and vice president elect Albert
Gore claimed to be hunters during the election campaign––but they went jogging. Whether they
actually hunt or not, indications are that the next four years should be politically much more
favorable toward animal and habitat protection than the preceding twelve years. Neither Clinton,
a reputed wild turkey hunter, nor Gore, a one-time deer hunter, has ever been known to shoot

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Guest Column: An Avoidable Conflict by Dan Namowitz

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Would you fly in an airplane if upon boarding you beheld a
sign proclaiming, “Notice: the flight crew is trained to cope with nor-
mal operations only. The management is not responsible for the per-
formance of the pilots under emergency conditions.”?
Would you ride aboard a train or an ocean liner, if the engi-
neer or captain had received no emergency training?
What kind of emergency training should the driver of an
automobile undergo? With all the loss-of-control accidents that occur
on icy roads at the beginning of each new winter, and all the
animal/automobile collisions that occur each spring and summer, it is
obvious that drivers whose normal operating environments involve
certain predictable hazards are doing a poor job of dealing with emer-
gencies, resulting in unnecessary death and injury.

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Who Shot Those Pigeons?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

HARRISBURG, Pa.––The Sept-
ember 9 edition of the Valley View Citizen
Standard took a few weeks to reach partici-
pants in the Labor Day protest against the
59th annual Fred Coleman Memorial Pigeon
Shoot, but when it did, it ignited a furor.
The hometown paper of Hegins,
Pa., where the pigeon shoot is held, pub-
lished the names and scores of all pigeon
shoot registrants. Among those listed as
scoring, a euphemism for killing pigeons,
were seven protesters who paid the $75 reg-
istration fee in order to let pigeons escape
by intentionally shooting high, low, or
wide when the traps were opened. Twenty
pigeons were released for each registrant to
shoot at, one at a time, on command.

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Hunting––

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Michigan Public Broadcast-
ing System on September 24 aired the final
episode of Michigan Outdoors, a weekly
hook-and-bullet show that had an audience
of 200,000. The show died after host Fred
Trost said in a product review that Buck Stop
Lure Co. used cow urine in a deer scent, lost
a $4 million defamation suit the firm filed
against him, and declared bankruptcy. Trost
was also forced to suspend a magazine he
published, Michigan Outdoor Digest, circu-
lation 40,000. The latter had also been in
trouble, having been sued for copyright
infringement at one point by the Michigan
United Conservation Clubs, whose in-house
magazine is called Michigan Out-of-Doors.
Buck Stop said Trost’s attack on its product
caused sales to drop 65%. Trost, mean-
while, pledged to regroup, find backers,
and get back on the air.

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