WARFARE AND ANIMALS

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

The Bureau of Land
Management has asked the U.S. Air
Force to redesign a plan to create a new
target bombing range 25 miles southeast
of the Saylor Creek Training Range in
Idaho. The BLM wants the Air Force to
restrict low level flights over the Owyhee
Canyonlands to avoid disturbing either
bighorn sheep during lambing season, or
recreational visitors during peak use
times. The Air Force earlier agreed to
avoid the most critical lambing areas and
to restrict flights over two other parts of
the proposed range during the times most
favored by rafters and kayakers. The
current plan is the fourth expansion proposal
from the Air Force since the
Persian Gulf War showed the need to
train pilots for desert combat. Previous
plans were halted by opposition from
Native Americans, environmentalists,
hunters, and ranchers.

Logging & grazing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

SAN FRANCISCO––The 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals just before Christmas lifted injunction
it imposed in July aganst logging on 13 National
Forest tracts in northern Arizona and three in New
Mexico, and allowed grazing to resume on 715 leaseholds
that Forest Guardians and the Southwest Center
for Biodiversity alleged were illegally administrated.
Forest Guardians and the Southwest Center
for Biodiversity argued that the logging and grazing
could harm endangered, threatened, and otherwise
protected species, including the Mexican spotted owl
and northern goshawk. The July injunction had temporarily
voided 177 of the 202 grazing leases in the
Coronado National Forest. But it didn’t end the issue:
as the 9th Circuit verdict was imminent, Forest
Guardians on December 12 filed another suit, seeking
to remove about 10,000 cattle from National Forests
alongside four rivers in Arizona and three rivers in
New Mexico, on grounds they may harm 18 endangered
species.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Huntingdon drops PETA suit
Huntingdon Laboratories in mid-December dropped a
federal suit against People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
and undercover investigator Michele Rokke, 31, who after four
years of undercover work has reportedly left PETA and returned
home to Minnesota. In early July 1997, PETA disclosed videotape
Rokke took of alleged abuse of monkeys during tests performed at
a Huntingdon facility in New Jersey under contract to Procter &
G a m b l e. P&G immediately suspended and later discontinued all
dealings with Huntingdon. The videotape came from about 50
hours of clandestine taping that Rokke did while working as a
Huntingdon animal care technician. Rokke had also taken copies
of as many as 8,000 pages of documents. Huntingdon charged
about two weeks after the PETA disclosed the alleged abuses that
Rokke had violated a confidentiality clause she signed when she
was hired, suing under a law that would have allowed the firm to
collect triple damages if successful in prosecuting the case.

THE SIERRA CLUB SUES AND IS SUED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Suing under the National Wildlife Refuge
Improvement Act, signed into law by President Bill
Clinton in October 1997, the National Audubon
Society and Sierra Club head a coalition asking a
federal judge in Sacramento, California, to restrict
irrigation, row cropping, and pesticide use on farms
located within the Lower Klamath and Tule Lake
refuges south of Klamath Falls, Oregon. The refuges
host millions of birds each spring and fall, midway on
their migrations from Mexico to Canada and back.
Bluebird Systems, a computer software
company based in Carlsbad, California, has sued the
Sierra Club, alleging negligence, fraud, conspiracy,
and breach of contract. The suit claims former
Bluebird employee Dan Anderson, also sued, ran
the Sierra Club official web site from Bluebird computers
for more than two years without authorization.

Appeals Court and Congress steal ALDF victories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

WASHINGTON D.C.––A threejudge
panel representing the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit on December 9 reversed an October
1996 verdict by the late Federal Judge
Charles Richey that USDA rules for enforcing
the Animal Welfare Act violate the
intent of Congress in passing 1985 AWA
amendments that require animal vendors,
exhibitors, and researchers to provide for
the psychological needs of dogs and nonhuman
primates.

Sanctuary founder evicted

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

DALLAS––A federal court on December 8
ruled that Texas Exotic Feline Foundation cofounder
Gene Reitnauer must leave her home at the TEFF
sanctuary within 30 days, despite a bankruptcy claim
she filed after a Travis County court ordered her to
pay $1.8 million in restitution and damages for
allegedly converting TEFF assets to her personal use.
The Travis County judgement held that the use of
donors’ funds on the house made it TEFF property
rather than her own.

Truth in advertising and HSUS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

The Humane Society of the U.S. is to collect
“3-5% of all sales” of book, plush animal, and audiotape
packages produced by The Benefactory, of
Fairfield, Connecticut, inspired by “true stories about
real, living animals.” If any of the money gets back to
the rescue groups actually involved with each animal,
there seems to be no mention of it in the publicity package
ANIMAL PEOPLE received. Among the stories is
that of a dog saved by the Northeast Animal Shelter, a
no-kill high volume adoption facility––with no mention
that HSUS has crusaded against both no-kill sheltering
and high volume adoption for more than 40 years.
Wrote San Francisco SPCA president
Richard Avanzino on November 21 to Humane
Society of the U.S. president Paul Irwin, “In a recent
edition of your publication Animal Sheltering, devoted
to the no-kill debate, you admonish no-kill shelters that
failure to be forthright can create ‘false and harmful’
perceptions. You counsel against misrepresenting the
extent of the ‘surplus pet problem’ and stress the need
for everyone to be ‘fair and truthful.’ However, your
own publication states that ‘In the fiscal years 1993

WHO GETS THE MONEY? LATE RETURNS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

These tables on animal-and/or-habitat-related
organizations whose IRS Form 990 filings were
received late appear supplemental to the tables published
in our December 1997 edition. That edition covered
105 other organizations, in our eighth annual
“Who Gets The Money?” special feature, and is still
available at $3.00 per copy.
Each charity is identified in the second column
by apparent focus: A for advocacy, C for conservation
of habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for
support of hunting (either for “wildlife management” or
recreation), L for litigation, N for neutering, P for
publication, R for animal rights, S for shelter/sanctuary
maintenance, V for focus on vivisection issues,
and W for animal welfare. R and W are used only if a
group makes a point of being one or the other.

AzSPCA founder loses leg

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1998:

Arizona SPCA founder Treva
Slote, 68, lost her left leg and Phoenix
police officer Brian Wilbur, 26, was critically
injured on December 20 when Elfido
Moreno, 35, allegedly rammed them as
they picked up a hurt dog. Officer Jeremy
Rosenthal, 25, suffered minor injuries.
Moreno was booked on two counts of aggravated
assualt and one count of endangerment.
He reportedly had just left a party,
and had a police record for alleged drunk driving.
Slote, a former exotic dancer, cofounded
the Arizona Humane Society and
started the AzSPCA in 1960, after first trying
to purchase every cat and kitten who
would otherwise be killed by Maricopa
County animal control. In 1976 she convinced
the county to halt killing animals by
decompression––already discredited as inhumane,
but then still in common use.

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