From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2006:
WESTON, Ct.–While mainstream humane societies have mostly
left wildlife issues to nature centers and state wildlife agencies,
individual rehabilitators have gradually built a network of
independent institutions dedicated to extending the humane ethic to
wild animals. Often they work almost in the shadows of the
mainstream organizations that didn’t do the job.
Wildlife In Crisis, of Weston, Connecticut, whose photos
appear on pages 1 and 12, operates within the territory served by
the Connecticut Humane Society since 1881 and the Connecticut Audubon
Society since 1898. Not part of the National Audubon Society,
Conn-ecticut Audubon now operates a statewide string of 19 wildlife
sanctuaries and six nature centers, and does rehabilitation of rare
species.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2006:
The Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center, in
Keenesburg, Colorado, on October 16, 2006 announced that it had
received enough funding to stay open. “We’re still not out of the
woods,” founder Pat Craig told Denver Post staff writer Christine
Tatum. The 26-year-old sanctuary houses about 150 animals,
including 75 tigers and 30 bears, on 140 acres. Craig warned on
August 15, 2006 that it was out of money and might close, then
closed to public visits on September 2.

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2006:

CHICAGO–Urban wildlife habitat conservation is often traced
to the 1914 creation of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County.
Foresighted planning bequeathed to Chicago and surrounding suburbs a
protected greenbelt and wildlife migration corridors that today hosts
an abundance of animals of most species common to the midwest.
Unlike in Milwaukee, however, an hour’s drive or train ride
to the north, the major Chicago-area humane societies and animal
control agencies have yet to become deeply involved with wildlife.
Focusing on dogs and cats is still enough to keep them busy.
Yet this means ceding the primary role in responding to public
concerns about wildlife to other institutions, whose focal message
is not “be kind to animals,” of all species, and whose agendas are
often at odds with humane concerns.
Henry Bergh, who founded the American SPCA in New York City
in 1866, also inspired through correspondence the 1879 formation of
the Wisconsin Humane Society. The only known statute of Bergh stands
in front of the Wisconsin Humane shelter.

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