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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

10,000 Birds

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Sacramento River National Wildlife Refuge : Expand big game hunting. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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Guest Post: Susan Wilson

4 The Love Of Animals

She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. I’m an author, good character names are fair game) joined the family and something rather miraculous happened. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts.

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On SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

Hunters kill members of endangered species. Old-speciesists have a rights view of at least some humans but a utilitarian view of nonhumans (18). Would intelligent beings riot over the out come of a soccer game? In some sense, of course, many (perhaps most) humans don't know right from wrong.