For Immediate Release December 21, 2015 Contacts: Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, 314-482-3746, nick@cascwild.org Timothy Coleman, Kettle Range Conservation Group, 509-675-3556, tcoleman@kettlerange.org Bethany Cotton, WildEarth Guardians, 406-414-7227, bcotton@wildearthguardians.org John Mellgren, Western Environmental Law Center, 541-525-5087, mellgren@westernlaw.org Conservationists deal blow to Wildlife Services in landmark WA wolf case Court rejects indiscriminate wolf killing OLYMPIA, … Continue reading Huge Legal Victory for Washington’s Wolves
Cascadia Challenges Wildlife Services in Washington
March 3, 2015 Conservationists Challenge Wildlife Services’ Authority to Kill Wolves in Washington Wildlife Services Activities Threaten Wolf Recovery, Healthy Ecosystems Olympia, Wash. — Today, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) on behalf of five conservation groups, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services program challenging its authority to kill … Continue reading Cascadia Challenges Wildlife Services in Washington
Celebrate and Practice Wolf Awareness This Week and Beyond
By Bob Ferris I get philosophical when riding my bike. I got so philosophical the other night that I almost biked into an opening car door, but I digress. A lot of my pedal-powered thinking of late has been directed at wolves, science and our various governments’ intellectual and moral responsibilities—with the Huckleberry Pack … Continue reading Celebrate and Practice Wolf Awareness This Week and Beyond
Deer, Bears and Pigs: the Apples, Oranges and Pumpkins of Ecology
By Bob Ferris In the mid-1980s I served as an ecological consultant for the University of California, Santa Cruz when they compiled their 20-year development plan. I was making my living as a wildlife ecologist at that time and was excited by this departure from my normal set of consulting projects such as critter … Continue reading Deer, Bears and Pigs: the Apples, Oranges and Pumpkins of Ecology
In Washington, Opposition Mounts to Notorious Federal Program’s Attempt to Grab Wolf-killing Powers
For Immediate Release, January 16, 2014 Contacts: Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity, (707) 779-9613 Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 John Mellgren, Western Environmental Law Center, (541) 359-0990 In Washington, Opposition Mounts to Notorious Federal Program’s Attempt to Grab Wolf-killing Powers OLYMPIA, Wash.— Eight conservation groups representing tens of thousands of … Continue reading In Washington, Opposition Mounts to Notorious Federal Program’s Attempt to Grab Wolf-killing Powers
Coalition Comments on Washington Wolves and Wildlife Services
On January 16, 2014 Cascadia Wildlands and a coalition of conservation groups submitted written comments on a proposal to involve USDA Wildlife Services in the Washington wolf recovery effort. Please click the link below to read the coalition's comments on this ill-advised proposal. Wildlife Services EA Comments WA_FINAL
A Good Paper to Read While Gaining an Understanding of How Coyotes Respond to Control
As we push for more enlightened views regarding coyotes and continue our work to reform or do away with USDA Wildlife Services, it is important to learn about what research tells us about coyote control. This paper is a good place to start to learn how complicated this issue is. Please follow the link below to … Continue reading A Good Paper to Read While Gaining an Understanding of How Coyotes Respond to Control
Happy Birthday Aldo!
By Bob Ferris Today is Aldo Leopold’s birthday. Whether you know it or not a lot the reason we at Cascadia Wildlands do what we do is because this intelligent, insightful and principled man questioned existing paradigms and took the time to look behind the curtain of ecological systems. One of the … Continue reading Happy Birthday Aldo!
Scrutinize wildlife agency: DeFazio questions its costs, mission and culture
By Register Guard Editorial Staff January 8, 2014 Congress should join the U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector general in investigating the federal government’s predator control program. The Wildlife Services agency has had far more than its share of controversy since the federal program was created nearly a century ago to oversee the trapping, shooting … Continue reading Scrutinize wildlife agency: DeFazio questions its costs, mission and culture
Fire the Employee and the Program
Fox News just posted a piece on a story that has been brewing for months about a USDA Wildlife Services employee who let his dogs loose on coyotes trapped in leg-hold traps. And then was stupid enough (I do not use this word lightly) to post evidence of dogs attacking and ripping apart the coyotes … Continue reading Fire the Employee and the Program