Fund sets up Urban Wildlife Hotline to provide information on the humane ways to solve nuisance wildlife problems. Fund reaches legal settlement with the Bureau of Land Management to prevent the agency from adopting wild horses to people who plan to sell the horses to slaughter. In response to a private pigeon shooting contest in Sarasota, Florida, Fund drafts an ordinance to ban pigeon shoots, which is passed unanimously by the Sarasota County Council. 1998 Connecticut Legislature overwhelmingly passes a Fund bill to stop nuisance wildlife control trappers from drowning animals and using other cruel methods of killing. Fund lawsuit halts the sport hunting of bison on the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming.
Fund helps pass state legislation to ban live pigeon shoots in North Carolina.
In response to public pressure and a Fund-sponsored lawsuit, organizers of the annual Labor Day pigeon shoot held in Hegins, Pennsylvania announce the event' s cancellation. Arizona Game and Fish Commission passes a rule proposed by The Fund and a coalition of local and national organizations, banning the contest killing hunts of coyotes, prairie dogs, foxes, bobcats, and other wildlife.