Great Lakes Wolf Appeal Last week the the D.C. Court of Appeals upheld the December 2014 ruling by federal Judge Beryl Howell affirming that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service illegally and improperly designated the Great Lakes gray wolf population as a “distinct population segment” in order to push through a delisting. The appeals court…
Wildlife in Crisis: Wisconsin Doubles Bobcat Kill Quota and The Lack of Democracy in “Wildlife Management”
I’m sure that all of you hear or read daily the time tested propaganda about how the killing cartels claim that “hunters” are “conservationists” and “fund conservation.” You also hear how non-hunters don’t “fund” anything. Not only are these claims greatly embellished, they are also patently false. Not once have I ever heard a non-hunter…
Hounder Free For All: Wisconsin’s Wildlife Hell Is Worse Than We Thought
For decades the State of Wisconsin has been waging a war on our native wildlife and using hounds as four legged weapons. Even though the use of hounds against wildlife, particularly bears, has only been legal for a few decades it somehow has been warped into being considered “heritage” and “tradition” by the Wisconsin DNR…
Animal Legal Defense Fund Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Wisconsin’s Right to Hunt Act
Originally posted on Wolf Patrol:
7/15/17: Wisconsin bear hunter citing Right to Hunt Act as evidence that Wolf Patrol has no right to film his activities on public lands. Animal Legal Defense Fund Lawsuit Takes Wisconsin to Court for Violating First Amendment Contact: Natalia Lima, 201-679-7088, nlima@aldf.org MADISON, Wis. – Today the Animal Legal Defense…
Senator Tammy Baldwin: Anti-Wolf and Pro-Lead Poisoning Bill Supporter
I am sure that I am not the only person who has been feeling a foreboding sense of doom and despair for what the future holds for wildlife in Wisconsin and beyond. The mere existence of wildlife today is almost exclusively for the killing opportunities that they provide with little to no credence given to…
July 1st: The Season of Hell Begins for Wisconsin Wildlife
Tomorrow, July 1st, marks the beginning of the legal animal fighting free for all known as the bear hound “training season.” Thousands of hounds and hounders will descend on our public lands from all over the country with their trucks, bait, and thousands of GPS collared hounds to torment any wildlife that gets in their…
Guest Blog: A Tale of Compassionate Transition and Unconditional Love
The following post was written by a personal friend, Jim McFarlane, about how he came to see animals as more than food and as living, feeling, and integral parts of our lives. He lost a dear member of his family this week and each and every one of us that has ever loved or been…
Wisconsin Hounders Poised to Get Immediate Payouts for their “Depredation” Scam
Just when you thought that Wisconsin’s “hound depredation payment” scam couldn’t get anymore ridiculous along comes this. From the Wisconsin State Journal: Under a budget provision approved by the Joint Finance Committee, the DNR would write a check as soon as it was confirmed that a dog was killed by a wolf instead of waiting…
Wisconsin WildCare: A Ray of Sunshine in Our Brutal State
Being a wildlife advocate is not easy. The day after day losses and exposure to the endless cruelty is heartbreaking, demoralizing, and can often push one to the breaking point. This is why every once in awhile we must be able to cling to rays of sunshine in an increasingly cruel and bleak world for…
How is Breeding, Raising, and Releasing Non-Native Birds to be Killed, “Conservation?”
One of the most ridiculously framed arguments that the killing cartels use to justify their wanton bloodlust is that if they don’t kill wildlife, they will die. Yes that is their chief argument along with a myriad of other absurd statements. The modern “great white hunter” would lead you to believe that they are doing…
Our Wisconsin, Our Wildlife 