Sentences with phrase «wildlands group»

Like the Urban Wildlands Group, the Los Angeles Audubon Society seems eager to spread the word about the «threat» of feral cats.
The L.A. Audubon Society was (along with the Urban Wildlands Group) a petitioner in the case (LASC BS115483) that eventually led to an injunction against publicly supported TNR in Los Angeles.
Not surprisingly, Longcore, who serves as both science director for the Urban Wildlands Group and Los Angeles Audubon's president, argues that «the injunction is a huge success.»
But, just like Urban Wildlands Group, what they're saying doesn't always add up.
«TNR supporters «are not trying to reduce feral cat populations — they are trying to stop euthanasia of feral cats,» says Travis Longcore, science director of the Urban Wildlands Group.
And if pressed, they would almost certainly produce the Travis Longcore / Urban Wildlands Group article from Conservation Biology, some reference to the Wisconsin Study, a clipping of the L.A. Times story from January, or some comparable (read: dubious) bit of «evidence.»
And heaven knows, if there were evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of such policies, ABC, TWS, the Urban Wildlands Group, et al. wouldn't be shy about it.
I tend to think that, generally speaking, the leadership at ABC, TWS, the Urban Wildlands Group, et al. is — despite various failures, of which I've been highly critical — smart enough to realize this simple fact.
The Injunction The original complaint — filed by the Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes / South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and the American Bird Conservancy — was brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, with the plaintiffs arguing, for instance, that TNR «can cause significant adverse environmental impacts by causing proliferation of rats and raccoons and creating water pollution problems.»
Indeed, as head of the Urban Wildlands Group, current president of the Los Angeles Audubon Society, and author of the well - circulated «Critical Assessment of Claims Regarding Management of Feral Cats by Trap - Neuter - Return» (a compilation of cherry - picked «facts,» misrepresentations, and glaring omissions, which I've critiqued in some detail), Longcore (who, I suspect, is the same «Travis» whose comment brought Hutchins back from the brink in November) would seem to be the go - to guy on this topic.
This method, known as TNR (trap, neuter, release), drew the ire of the Urban Wildlands Group, which advocates for birds, squirrels and lots of other little critters that fall prey to free - roaming cats.
Law Offices of Babak Naficy and Babak Naficy for Plaintiffs and Respondents The Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes / South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and American Bird Conservancy.
«It's ugly; it's gotten very vicious,» said Travis Longcore of the Urban Wildlands Group, one of the organizations that sued the city on behalf of the birds.
The injunction favored the Urban Wildlands Group, the Los Angeles Audubon Society and four other conservation groups, which had sued the city a year earlier.
«Feral cats are documented predators of native wildlife,» said Travis Longcore, science director for the Urban Wildlands Group.
Travis Longcore, science director of the wildlands group, said the main objection was that trap - neuter - release was «the only way» animal services was going to deal with the problem.
If this were as black - and - white as FWS makes it sound, there wouldn't even be a discussion about TNR (and the Urban Wildlands Group would likely have taken a very different tack in its opposition to TNR in Los Angeles).

Not exact matches

Other groups signing onto the agreement included Cascadia Wildlands, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, the Hells Canyon Preservation Council, the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, Oregon Wild and Wildlands Network.
«This model makes the destruction of public lands unjustified,» says David Myers, executive director of nonprofit environmental group the Wildlands Conservancy.
«In their efforts to be reasonable and realistic, politically sophisticated and pragmatic, the conservation groups often agree that we have to give up some wildlands to human need.
While Ghost Recon: Wildlands features an offline mode that basically gives the player a group of AI controlled party members, it truly shines with its gameplay when played together with a group of team members.
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is a fun tactical shooter offering unlimited potential with a group of friends.
A new film, based on the true story of one group of wildland firefighters, is out in theaters this week.
Instead, Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands was the best - selling game last month, likely due to Nintendo's unwillingness to share their digital sales figures with the NPD Group.
The story, set in the two warring states of sci - fi city Coccoon and the wildlands of Gran Pulse, follows a mostly irritating group of characters who are cursed by gods known as the Fal» cie into fulfilling their destiny — which I think, feeling my way through the impenetrable terminology, is saving the world.
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In 2016, the process will repeat with the codes that fall in «Group B,» which include the International Exiting Building code (IEBC), International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), International Fire Code (IFC), International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC), International Residential Code (IRC), International Swimming Pools / Spa Code (ISPSC), and the International Wildland - Urban Interface Code (IWUIC).
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