YELLOWSTONE REGION BOOKS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

Yellowstone Wildlife: A Watcher’s Guide
Track of the Coyote
Glacier Park Wildlife:
A Watcher’s Guide to Glacier Park & Waterton Lakes
Grand Canyon, Zion & Bruce
All by Todd Wilkinson, with photos by Michael H. Francis
All from NorthWord Press (POB 1360, Minoqua, WI 545498), 1995.
Watcher’s Guides are 96 pages, paperback, $11.95.
Others are 144 pages, paperback, $14.95.

NorthWord Press had the misfortune
to send us their Todd Wilkinson/Michael
Francis library on the great National Parks of
the Rocky Mountains in late 1995 just after
we’d explored the Continental Divide from
Bozeman, Montana, to Puerto Penasco,
Mexico, and had extensively reported on our
findings. Fortunately these books were
designed to have a long shelf life, and are still
in print. Yellowstone Wildlife explains to the

Yellowstone wolves leghold-trapped

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

HELENA, Montana––A little publicized aspect of
the Yellowstone region wolf reintroduction is that although
tranquilizer darts and net guns are also used in captures and
recaptures, the wolves involved may be repeatedly legholdtrapped,
with potentially tragic consequences.
Many of the initial breeding wolves were first
leghold-trapped in Alberta for outfitting with radio collars a
year or more before they were recaptured, sometimes again by
leghold trapping, for relocation to Yellowstone and central
Idaho. Then they may have been leghold-trapped on further
occasions, for maintenance of their radio collars, removal
from proximity to livestock, and checks of reproductive status.
Offspring are also routinely leghold-trapped to be fitted with
radio collars, if they can’t be caught by other means.

Fishy business whirling

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

High-profile U.S. and Canadian efforts to restore endangered western
salmon runs have their counterpart in a restoration of native trout to
Yellowstone, announced in January 1997 by Yellowstone National Park
superintendent Mike Finley.
Like the salmon restoration, the trout restoration is driven by concern
for declining biodiversity––but unlike the salmon projects, is not associated
with actual scarcity of fish. The problem gripping the Pacific Northwest
is that the combination of heavy fishing, dam-building, and silted spawning
streams caused by logging not only annihilated salmon runs, but also built
industries whose very existence conflicts with the recovery of salmon, even as
fishing also depends upon having abundant salmon of the more coveted subspecies
[the less coveted pink salmon seem to be thriving by the absence of
their bigger kin].

Wild equines win new safeguards

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

RENO––The Bureau of
Land Management on October 15
settled a lawsuit filed in June by the
Fund for Animals and Animal
Protection Institute by agreeing to
require wild horses and burro adoptors
to pledge that they have no
intention of selling the animal either
for slaughter or for rodeo bucking
stock; to require slaughterhouses to
keep all paperwork on BLM-freezebranded
equines, and to require
slaughterhouses to notify the BLM
immediately of the receipt of any
such animals; to bar wild horse and
burro adoptions through power of
attorney; and to bar individuals from
adopting more than four wild equines
during a one-year period.

Seals, whales, ESA and the Willys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

MONACO, TORONTO, WASHINGTON
D.C. ––Close to losing 25 years of
activist gains through back door politics, the
International Fund for Animal Welfare and
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society rallied
opposition to sealing off Atlantic Canada and
whaling in any form as ANIMAL PEOPLE
went to press, while Defenders of Wildlife
used the Internet to assemble resistance to an
Endangered Species Act rewrite apparently
favored by both the Bill Clinton/Albert Gore
administration and the Republican majorities
in the House and Senate.
IFAW sent out an eight-millionpiece
mailing asking members and sympathizers
to call or write Canadian authorities to
remind them that seal slaughter is as offensive
now as in 1984, when three decades of
campaigning finally brought a 12-year suspension
of the offshore phase of the killing.

Barbarians rev up at the gates of Yellowstone

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK––As the
first and most popular National Park, Yellowstone could be
seen as the capitol of a wilderness empire as far-reaching as
Imperial Rome.
The 150 snowmobiling wise-use wiseguys who
rallied October 11 in West Yellowstone against limited park
road closures might be seen as the vanguard of the Huns,
hellbent on sacking what they don’t understand.
Looking at a map of North America, one can easily
imagine parks, forests, and national monuments linked
into a continuous set of wildlife corridors from the Yukon to
the Gulf of California. Much of the Mexican terminus is
already protected within a United Nations-recognized
Biosphere Reserve––but another part, the San Ignacio
Lagoon, is both an important gray whale calving area and
potentially jeopardized by salt extraction facilities in joint
development by Mitsubishi and the Mexican government.

Direct action crackdown

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

Noel Molland, 36, of
Okehampton, Devon, Paul Rogers, 33, of
Southsea, Hampshire, Steve Booth, 38, of
Galgate, Lancashire, Saxon Birchnall
Wood, 24, of Sandhurst, Berkshire, and
Simon Russell, 33, of Pevensey, East
Sussex, pleaded not guilty on August 30 in
London, England, to allegedly conspiring
together and with previously convicted
Animal Liberation Front press officer
Robin Wood to incite persons unknown to
commit criminal damage between January
1991 and January 1996. All five, and Robin
Wood, were associated with Green Anarchist
magazine. Booth also produced his own magazine,
Lancaster Bomber, as did Molland,
who called his Eco Vegan. Burchnall Wood
allegedly distributed manuals on making
bombs and sabotaging vehicles, the Crown
said. Russell was for several years the electronic
voice of the British ALF. The group,
whose trial continues, are believed to have
been the core of the British ALF in the 1990s.
Attacks on some targets the defendants
allegedly directed activists toward continue.

Protest of bison killing took guts

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL
PARK––The Fund for Animals, Biodiversity
Legal Foundation, Ecology Center, Predator
Project, and individual coplaintiffs on
September 23 announced an out-of-court settlement
of a lawsuit against the National Park
Service for maintaining groomed snowmobile
trails in and out of Yellowstone National Park
each winter, which become corridors to
slaughter as bison follow the cleared, packed
routes north into Montana. More than 1,000
bison were shot last winter alone for entering
Montana, where ranchers fear the bison may
reintroduce brucellosis, undoing a long campaign
to eliminate the disease.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

WILLS BANKRUPT
Former Humane Society of the
U.S. vice president David Wills on August
22 filed for personal bankruptcy. Among his
17 listed creditors were H S U S, which in
October 1995 fired Wills and later sued him
for allegedly misappropriating $93,000; John
H o y t, president of HSUS and Humane
Society International from 1970 until last year,
who is believed to have personally loaned
Wills money; Sandra LeBost, of Royal Oak,
Michigan, to whom Wills agreed in June
1995 to pay $42,500 in restitution and damages
for nonrepayment of loans; and
William and Judith McBride, also of Royal
Oak, Michigan, who are believed to have
reached an out-of-court settlement with Wills
in a similar case involving alleged failure to
repay a loan of $20,000.

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