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2017 Animal L. Comm. Newsl. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/anilawcn2017 and id is 1 raw text is: Spring 2017 Animal Law Committee SWORD AND SHIELD: LAWSUITS AND CIVIC ACTION FURTHERING COEXISTENCE WITH WILDLIFE By: Don Lipmanson Introduction As coyotes find habitable niches in Chicago and mountain lion sightings proliferate1 in suburban Los Angeles, the public faces a stark choice: continuing centuries-old policies of exterminating nuisance animals or learning to co-exist with wildlife. Historically, state and federal wildlife agencies have deployed hunters and trappers to solve wild animal problems by killing the purported offenders, individually or en masse. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services Division (WS) has spearheaded what wildlife advocates view as a century of brutal, unnecessary, and often counter-productive nationwide warfare on predators, primarily on behalf of the livestock industry.2 The death penalty is being imposed on wildlife for sporadic predation upon domestic livestock or pets, or even for causing modest property damage such as a fence being pushed over or an irrigation hose punctured when megafauna seek food or water in times of scarcity. However, as our nation has urbanized and suburbanized over the past century, both the physical landscape and societal attitudes toward wildlife have changed considerably. Development-in the form of roads, shopping malls, houses and high fences-has greatly fragmented formerly huge, food-and-water rich expanses of wild land. Outside the largest national parks and designated wilderness areas, megafauna and Continued on page 19 Sword And Shield: Lawsuits And Civic Action Furthering Coexistence With Wildlife .......... 1 Letter From The Chair....................... 3 Animal Law Subcommittee Updates............ 4 Headline Animal Law News ................... 5 Legislative And Regulatory Developments Affecting Animals ........................... 8 Fighting For Life In The Wild ................ 12 BLM'S Blinders: The Bureau Of Land Management's Short-Sighted Shift Toward Sterilizing Wild Horses ..................... 13 Legal Status And Protections (Or, The Lack Thereof) For Canada Geese In The United States ........ 14 Understanding Deer in Green Policy-Making . 15 2017 TIPS Calendar ........................ 30

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