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The C.A.S.H. Courier
ARTICLE from the Winter 2008 Issue
What we’ve been up to at Wildlife Watch/C.A.S.H.
Pro-Active
Campaigns
One of our pro-active campaigns at Wildlife Watch has been to advocate
the establishment of wildlife watching facilities. We’ve already touched
on the prospects of establishing a wildlife watching facility at the
site of the former Seneca Army Depot that contains a herd of white deer
elsewhere in this publication.
Kathy Andrews invited us down to South Carolina to give a presentation.
The following announcement went out. Florence-January 14, 2008)
Wildlife Watch Inc. will be giving a presentation today, Monday,
January 14th at 2pm at Lowrimore Auditorium in the John K. Cauthen
Educational Media Center at Francis Marion University. Wildlife
Watching is a prime outdoor recreational activity. If Wildlife
Watching were a business, it would rank higher than Microsoft yielding
45,650,000,000 in annual sales. 71 million people participate in
wildlife watching. There is a huge potential for wildlife
watching businesses in South Carolina.
Come join Anne and Peter Muller from Wildlife Watch for a fascinating
presentation on wildlife watching in your own backyard.
There
were large landowners, the president of a land trust, an ecologist, and
business people who were very interested in hearing about a wildlife
watching enterprise. The actual numbers are dazzling, and for those who
enjoy wildlife and are interested in a positive win-win situation for the
wildlife and their finances, wildlife watching is an exciting prospect.
Coincidentally, at the time that Wildlife Watch started working on the
situation in Seneca Falls, New York, we were contacted by Kathy Andrews, a
land owner in rural South Carolina who was interested in establishing a
wild-life watching facility on her 100 acres.
We are firmly convinced by the numbers and facts that a wildlife watching
facility can solve problems for land owners and communities. If there is a
large area of contiguous, essentially uncultivated, natural land which is
publicly or privately owned and on which there is an abundance of wildlife –
what is the best use that can be made of such a parcel of land?
What’s
best?
- For the environment?
- For the wildlife?
- For the financial benefit of the owner?
- For long term preservation of assets?
- For the surrounding community?
The answer to all of these questions is the establishment of a wildlife
watching facility. Wildlife watching is a non-invasive, non-consumptive,
non-lethal enjoyment of nature and wildlife. It can be profitable to the
owner and the surrounding community.
It
is already a large business in the US by any measure — $48 billion/year and
growing. So it is not at all strange that the owners of large tracts of
wilderness are starting to explore the possibilities. Wildlife Watch went to
Florence South Carolina to meet Kathy Andrews. Kathy had been in touch with
us before regarding abuse by lawless hunters on her land and the lack of
law-enforcement and harassment by the local sheriffs and police – which was
chronicled in previous issues of the C.A.S.H. Courier.
We met Kathy and proceeded with our presentation to a well-qualified and
interested audience. The audience was thrilled by the new conceptual vistas
that were opened to them.
There
was a prolonged and lively discussion after the presentation. We had
requests for more information after we returned back to our office. We had
good media coverage, arranged by Kathy who is a pro in the field of PR. It
was an excellent introduction for most attendees to a new way of thinking
about the phrase “recreational use of wildlife.”
The day Wildlife Watch gave the presentation, Michelle Obama spoke to the
students at Francis Marion University. We were fortunate to have been there
to hear her inspirational speech.
Letter to Governor
Corzine
In addition to letters and e-mail to town officials, C.A.S.H. wrote a
letter to Governor Corzine on January 13th: It starts this way:
Wildlife Watch, Inc. is an animal protection organization that helps
connect people, the environment, and wildlife and seeks to protect
individual wild animals and species through education, political awareness
and direct aid to animals in need. On behalf of our members and supporters
in New Jersey, and specifically those in Essex County near the South
Mountain Reservation, we wish to bring your attention to the misguided plan
to use “sharpshooters” to kill deer at the Reservation, scheduled to
commence on January 29, 2008. As an organization that works to protect
wildlife and the areas where they live, we wish to list our objections to
the Deer Management Program and the reasons that our objections are based
upon, and we call upon you to cancel this hunt.
Letters written to the newspapers from
C.A.S.H or Wildlife Watch
Since the last issue of the Courier went to press, we’ve written at least
219 letters to 159 different newspapers in 45 states, also USA Today and the
Jerusalem Post. (!!!!!)
Israel
Jerusalem Post
USA Today
AL
The Times Daily (Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbri, and
Northwest, AL)
AK
Juneau Empire
AR
North Little Rock Times
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Little Rock)
Northwest Arkansas Times
The Courier (Russellville)
Arkansas Times
DeWitt Era-Enterprise
The Log Cabin Democrat (Conway)
CA
San Francisco Chronicle
San Jose Mercury News
Daily Democrat (Woodland)
The Californian (Bakersfield)
Sacramento Bee
Stockton Record
CT
The Wilton Bulletin
CO
Rocky Mountain News (Denver)
Montrose Press
Daily Camera (Boulder)
Colorado Springs Gazette
DE
News Journal (Wilmington)
FL
Orlando Sentinel
Miami Herald
Wakulla.com (Crawfordville)
Tallahassee Democrat
Pensacola News Journal
GA
The Moultrie Observer
HI
Pacific Business News (Honolulu)
IA
Sioux City Journal
Des Moines Register
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
Iowa City Press-Citizen
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald
IL
Chicago Daily Herald
Chicago Tribune
Rockford Register Star
Morris Daily Herald
Belleville News Democrat
IN
Corydon Democrat
Journal & Courier (Lafayette/West Lafayette)
Evansville Courier & Press
Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne)
KS
Emporia Gazette
KY
The Kentucky Kernel (Lexington)
LA
The Banner (Bernice)
Daily Comet (Thibodaux)
MA
Boston Business Journal
MD
Carroll County Times (Westminster)
Frederick News-Post
Cumberland News-Times
The Baltimore Chronicle
Baltimore Sun
ME
Kennebec Journal
MI
Jackson Citizen Patriot
News Herald (Southgate)
Sentinel-Standard (Ionia)
Muskegon Chronicle
MN
International Falls Daily Journal
Sherburne Tribune (Big Lake)
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Winona Daily News
Park Rapids Enterprise
MO
Lake Sun Leader (Camdenton)
Springfield News-Leader
Kansas City Star
The Missourian (Washington)
Jefferson City News-Tribune
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Sikeston Standard-Democrat
MS
Hattiesburg American
MT
Great Falls Tribune
Helena Independent Record
The Missoulian
Billings Gazette
NC
Asheville Citizen-Times
Salisbury Post
Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald
ND
Dickinson Press
Grand Forks Herald
NE
Grand Island Independent
North Platte Telegraph
Omaha World-Herald
Lincoln Journal Star
NJ
Daily Record (Parsippany)
The Bernardsville News
The Observer-Tribune (Stirling)
The Record (North Jersey)
NM
New Mexico Business Weekly (Albuquerque)
NY
New York Times
Newsday (Long Island)
Daily Star (Oneonta)
Albany Times-Union
The Journal-Register (Medina)
Niagara Gazette (Niagara Falls)
Buffalo News
Cooperstown Crier
The Leader (Corning)
Ithaca Times
Plattsburgh Press-Republican
Sullivan County Democrat (Calicoon)
Watertown Daily Times
North County News (Yorktown Heights)
Post-Standard (Syracuse)
Buffalo News
Suffolk Life (Long Island)
OH
Dayton Daily News
The Toledo Blade
The Advocate (Newark)
The Vindicator (Youngstown)
Columbus Business First
Corvallis Gazette-Times
News Journal (Mansfield)
Cincinnati Enquirer
New Philadelphia Times Reporter
Cleveland Plain Dealer
OK
The Oklahoman (Oklahoma City)
OR
Statesman Journal (Salem)
Gazette Times (Corvallis)
PA
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Norwin Star (Monroeville)
The Intelligencer (Doylestown)
Patriot-News (Central PA)
New Era (Lancaster)
Tribune-Review (Pittsburgh)
The Woodland Progress (Chalfant, Churchill, Edgewood, Forest Hills,
Turtle Creek, Wilkins Twp.)
Daily Review (Towanda)
Republican Herald (Pottsville)
RI
Providence Journal
SC
Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Times and Democrat (Orangeburg)
SD
Sioux City Journal
TN
Maryville Daily Times
Chattanooga Times Free Press
TX
Dallas Morning News
Lufkin Daily News
Houston Chronicle
Odessa American
Galveston Daily News
UT
Salt Lake Tribune
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