National Wildlife Refuges Contaminated with Thousands of Pounds of Toxic Pesticides

by Susan Sargent | May 15, 2018
From: Beyond Pesticides “According to a new report from the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), hundreds of thousands of pounds of pesticides are sprayed on lands that are designated as refuges for wildlife and protected under U.S. law. Approximately 490,000 pounds of pesticides ...

Wolf Researcher Who Accused WSU of Silencing Him Gets $300K to Settle Lawsuit and Go Away

From: The Seattle Times “Jeff Ruch, executive director of PEER, said the Wielgus incident showed that Washington has politicized its wolf policy and allowed politics into the halls of its land-grant university. “Most people believe academic freedom exists, particularly for tenured ...

Academic Freedom Settlement for Washington Wolf Scientist

by Susan Sargent | May 14, 2018
Washington State University Pays Researcher Targeted by Industry to Leave Campus ...

Rob Wielgus: War on Wolf Science

Rob is one of the continent’s leading experts on wolf-livestock interactions. His pioneering research on wolves and livestock in eastern Washington found that lethal control of wolves was in fact increasing livestock depredations, and that ranchers who took part in his cooperative ...

Trump vs. “The Deep State”

From: The New Yorker “This seems to be either monkey-wrenching or just incredible incompetence. You have a civil-service system without the means to adjudicate disputes. The Trump philosophy is they just don’t want the agency to function at all.” Read more . . . Read the PEER ...
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