by Trish Swain | Mar 4, 2021 | Featured
What Are Wildlife Killing Contests? Events usually sponsored by a local restaurant or bar or perhaps a national organization, typically held over a weekend. Contestants pool resources for prizes – like either cash or guns. Frequently billed as a family event...
by Trish Swain | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured
Trappers are paid by city and county agencies and private land owners to trap Nevada beavers. This is a lethal solution to a situation that instead can be handled humanely. Almost every time trappers are involved, the beavers are killed. Trappers uphold the...
by Trish Swain | Jan 28, 2021 | Featured
THE PROBLEM: LACK OF DIVERSITY ON 9-MEMBER, GOVERNOR-APPOINTED NEVADA BOARD OF WILDLIFE COMMISSIONERS (NBWC): There is an over-representation of hunter/trapper/ agriculture on the NBWC and an under-representation of the general population/conservation/...
by Trish Swain | Sep 24, 2020 | Featured
The Raccoon is the survivor, who lives alongside man as if to show him that he cannot truly conquer the land. Circa Summer 1972 Keeping a raccoon as a pet is highly controversial. Like the cat – who can be her own master, living by her wits, or maybe cozy up to...
by Trish Swain | Aug 24, 2020 | Featured
I am not Catholic, but I say you don’t have to be Catholic to love this Pope. He gives us an elegant, eloquent document that goes beyond mere”humane” or “ethical” or “right” to the universal in the widest sense. Every line is...
by Trish Swain | Feb 24, 2020 | Featured
Trapped -Douglas Balmain To be trapped in a mind that views the trapping of animals as a point of pride— as a way of life to be revered, romanticized, and protected… I wanted my next line to read: Is a reality I cannot imagine. But I can imagine it. I’ve been...
