Great sportsmen & women

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

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,

Horsethief too?

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

WASHINGTON, D.C.––Former Humane
Society of the U.S. vice president of investigations
David Wills not only allegedly misappropriated as
much as $211,000 from HSUS but is also a deadbeat
dad and, in effect, a horsethief, charges an
objection to Wills’ application for Chapter 13
bankruptcy filed on January 30, 1998 by HSUS
counsel Robert Plotkin.
Wills, wrote Plotkin, “admitted that a paternity
judgement was obtained against him by the
State of Washington on behalf of a child Wills
fathered with a woman who was not his wife…In
calculating his personal expense obligations,” to
shelter assets and income under the bankruptcy filing,

Watching the world go to hell

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

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.

Seals & cod pieces

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince
Edward Island––Gabrielle Fredericks, 102,
of Toronto, in early March demonstrated just
what kind of rugged macho man it takes to go
out on the ice among newborn harp seal pups:
none at all. A paid customer of Natural Habitat
Adventure Tours, a Boulder, Colorado-based
ecotourism firm, Fredericks shrugged off two
tour guides who held her arms at first, and
walked among the seals alone for several hours
in the Northumberland Strait, reported Nancy
Willis of the Charlottetown Guardian.
Fredericks left before the annual sealclubbing
bloodshed broke out on March 15.
She has a knack for leaving just in time: sixty
years earlier she, her late husband Joe, and
their son Martin fled Adolph Hitler and Austria
just a day before the outbreak of World War II.

EPA WANTS TO REGULATE FACTORY FARMS AS INDUSTRIAL POLLUTERS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

WASHINGTON D.C.– – Environ-
mental Protection Agency chief Carol Browner
on March 5 personally announced an EPA plan
to regulate livestock feedlots, hog barns, and
poultry sheds like industrial plants.
For the first time invoking the Clean
Water Act against agricultural polluters, the
EPA will require about 6,600 of the biggest
factory-style farms in the U.S. to obtain pollution
permits and undergo routine federal
inspection. Anyone keeping more than 1,000
animal units, defined as 1,000 cattle, 2,500
swine, or 100,000 hens, would fall under the
new rules, to be phased in over seven years.
Not long ago, such a notion would
have been politically decried as a bureaucratic
assault on God, Mom, fried chicken, and
hamburgers, possibly thought up by animal
rights activists.

WILD WOLVES AND TRUE TALES OF VICIOUS PREDATION

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

About as far from the Gulf of St.
Lawrence seal hunt as one can get and still
be within Canada, the government of the
Northwest Territories has invoked rhetoric
similar to that of Newfoundland, based on
local culture and poverty, in defense of a mere
dozen native hunters who reportedly used
snowmobiles to chase down more than 460
wolves during the winter, who were shot and
skinned after collapsing of exhausting.

Saga of a running dog

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

MEDFORD, Oregon––The Oregon law
protecting livestock from canine harassment came
under fire as a February 17 execution date approached
for Nadas, a collie/Malamute mix held by Jackson
County since September 1996 for allegedly repeatedly
chasing a neighbor’s horse.
Nadas’ owner, Sean Roach, was convicted
of criminal mischief for appearing at the county shelter
wearing a clown suit, in an apparent attempt to
recover Nadas on Halloween 1996. Roach and Nadas
were represented in subsequent appeals by Lake
Oswego attorney/activists Robert and Gail Babcock,
who took the case––unsuccessfully––to the Oregon
Supreme Court. The Babcocks, allied with Portland
activist Roger Troen, have long opposed Oregon and
Portland/Multnomah County dangerous dog laws.

ANIMAL CONTROL, RESCUE, & SHELTERING

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

Not doing the job
“Fearing lawsuits charging poor
enforcement” of public safety and
humane laws, Los Angeles city attorney
James Hahn’s office in January moved “to
change city law so that the Animal Regulation
Department no longer is bound to
impound abused or neglected animals on
private property,” Los Angeles Daily News
reporter Patrick McGreevy revealed on
January 29. “The department also would no
longer have to keep detailed records on all
impounded animals, a change that would
reduce the city’s liability is a pet is killed by
mistake,” McGreevy continued. The effort
was delayed, pending public hearings, by
city councillor Laura Chick. Hahn’s office
in late 1997 defended the Animal Regulation
Department against a suit by C i t i z e n s
for a Humane Los Angeles, who alleged
that former Animal Regulation Department
head Gary Olsen for at least eight months
improperly ignored an illegal cat shelter
housing more than 600 cats, to avoid the
political and fiscal fallout that might have
resulted from closing it and seizing the cats.

Wildlife agencies & advocates

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
director Jamie Rappaport Clark has named
Susan Lieberman, previously chief of the
Branch of Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species Operations, to succeed
Charles Dane, who retired, as chief of the
Office of Scientific Authority. USFWS
recruited Lieberman from the Humane
Society of the U.S. in 1990.
Joseph Lamp, 48, a speech professor
at Anne Arundel Community College
and Johns Hopkins University, as well as an
active member of the Humane Society of
Anne Arundel County, was in January
named to the Maryland Wildlife Advisory
Commission by governor Paris Glendening.
Lamp may be the first non-hunter to serve on
the commission. Also appointed was avid
hunter Robert Gregory Jr., the first AfroAmerican
commissioner.

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