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ENTER WILDLIFE FOR ALL You might remember Wildlife for All from last year when we uncovered and made public the organization ’ s usurpation of the science-driven convention of The Wildlife Society and the resulting headlines you can still read today .
Formerly known as the Southwest Environmental Center , which as recently as 2020 engaged in everything from border and immigration issues to public land and grazing policies , it was rebranded in 2021 as Wildlife for All , which advocates for “ reform ” of fish and game commissions nationwide , the “ democratization ” of wildlife decisionmaking and a more “ compassionate ” approach to wildlife management .
Propped up by the larger groups — just look at the board of directors and advisory committee for a list of current and past employees of HSUS , CBD , Project Coyote and others — Wildlife for All has , in just a year , gone from a ragtag , inconsequential group that signed-on to larger groups ’ lawsuits to give a local claim and flavor to literally taking a seat at one of the most important biological events attended by state wildlife agencies in the country . Less than a year after that , the group ’ s tentacles have permeated policymaking in Washington state and Colorado to the point of upending the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation .
In Washington state , Claire Loebs Davis , the managing partner of Animal & Earth Advocates , a Seattle-area law firm that brings public-interest litigation on behalf of animals , wildlife and the environment , is the founder and board president of Washington Wildlife First and sits atop the Wildlife for All advisory committee . She filed her fist lawsuit against the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2017 over the state removal of a livestock-killing pack of wolves , and she ’ s been an ardent supporter of every policy that removes hunters from the wildlife management landscape . She ’ s now manning more of the day-to-day business of the state-based offshoot of Wildlife for All after her executive director recently left ( keep reading …).
Some of the strategies she supports include ending the state ’ s spring bear hunt , changing the formula for mountain lion mortalities when setting bag limits ( which could result in a 50 percent decrease in available tags ) and reducing season dates , restricting the statewide bear take to one per hunter instead of the two currently in place , calling for more protections for recovered wolves in eastern Washington and supporting the “ Conservation Policy ” under consideration by the anti-hunting-weighted commission . The conservation policy makes no mention of consumptive use and is chock full of animal-rights and preservationist language that will blow the doors off scientific wildlife management and the North American Model in the state as it can be leveraged to remove hunters from the landscape under a myriad of situations .
That conservation policy was the legacy and dream of Jeff Davis , the former conservation policy director at the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife , who now heads the Colorado Parks and Wildlife agency .
CONTINUING THE CORRUPTION Colorado , of course , has just reintroduced wolves due to the passage of Proposition 114 in 2020 . Mike Phillips of the Turner Endangered Species Fund proudly proclaimed his instrumental role in the passage of that proposition when he spoke in favor of commission reform at the Wildlife for All panel discussion at The Wildlife Society ’ s national conference in Spokane , Wash ., last year .
And now Colorado is facing down the barrel of ballot-box biology as an impending proposition that would ban nearly all mountain lion and bobcat hunting and trapping in the state makes its way through the qualifying process . That process is being shepherded by Samantha ( Bruegger ) Miller .
Miller is a California native educated in women ’ s studies at UC Berkley ( later getting a master ’ s degree in public policy from Pepperdine ) who moved to Colorado to become the Wildlife Coexistence Campaigner for WildEarth Guardians . She left that extremist organization to become the executive director of , you guessed it , Washington Wildlife First , where she pushed all the same policies and advocated for the removal of hunters in wildlife management and the undermining of the North American Model .
When we say the animal-rights movement is a national and global machine , it ’ s not hyperbole — it ’ s fact . The top organizations in just this country sit on nearly a billion dollars they can use to advance their ideology and destroy our successful wildlife management model . You can see their fingerprints and personalities in every state where the ideologies are pushed , and even overseas in the United Kingdon and other western European countries , as well as Australia . It doesn ’ t take much to connect the dots .
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