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Selected Articles from our newsletterThe C.A.S.H. CourierARTICLE from the Winter 2008 IssueWhat we’ve been up to at Wildlife Watch/C.A.S.H.Pro-Active CampaignsOne 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.
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?
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.
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.
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 CorzineIn 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 WatchSince 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 Go on to Next Article
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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. 
What’s
best? 
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. 
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.”