by Felipe Gonzales | Feb 12, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
One morning in the fall of 1980, Rex Shaddox got a call from his supervisor at the Uvalde, Texas, office of Animal Damage Control. Shaddox had worked for Animal Damage Control, which was then a branch of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for seventeen months. His...
by Felipe Gonzales | Feb 12, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
A controversial hunting event scheduled this month in Holbrook has drawn the attention of a North American animal conservation organization, with the goal of putting a stop nationwide to a specific type of gaming, which it has termed “wildlife killing...
by Felipe Gonzales | Feb 12, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
After anti-government protesters took over Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge earlier this month to support two ranchers convicted of arson, it emerged that the convicts, Steven and Dwight Hammonds, had received thousands of dollars in financial support from...
by Felipe Gonzales | Feb 12, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
Coyote hunting competitions were banned in California at the end of 2014, and wildlife advocates hoped to get a similar ban passed in Nevada late last year, but failed to persuade the Nevada Board of Wildlife Commission. The commission voted 5-2 against the ban, a...
by Felipe Gonzales | Feb 12, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
Should New Hampshire sportsman be allowed to hunt and trap bobcats? Since the idea of a season on bobcats was first put on the table more than a year ago, that question has stirred up strong emotions, and those emotions came to a head Monday night.
by Felipe Gonzales | Feb 12, 2016 | In the News, In the News Archive 2016
Day after day, the mountain lion struggled to free itself. But the steel-jaw trap held its grip. Desperate, the big cat bit the trap so hard that it broke a tooth. It tugged and wrenched and twisted. Finally, exhausted and dehydrated, the 7-foot-long male died in the...
