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  • The Story of Bella, a Husky Almost Killed by a USDA Wildlife Services Snare

    Ken Cole

    Brooks Fahy, of Predator Defense in Eugene, Oregon, has put together an account of Robert Norie, the owner of Bella the husky, and the ordeal they went through after Bella was caught in an unmarked USDA Wildlife Services snare set for wolves in Idaho’s Boise National Forest in August 2010. Wildlife Services has been implicated…

  • Predator poison killing central Idaho dogs

    Ken Cole

    13 pets killed in a residential area of Salmon, Idaho by compound 1080. Another version of the same article in the Post Register says that these poisonings may be linked to several wolf poisonings in the area from years past. Predator poison killing central Idaho dogs. Associated Press in the Idaho Statesman – – –…

  • Trapped on public lands

    Ralph Maughan

    Montana ballot initiative (I-160) would outlaw trapping on public lands- A grassroots effort to protect pets from traps set on public lands has grown into a larger movement to ban trapping (by ballot initiative) on public lands. Trapped on public lands. By Martin J. Kidston. Helena Independent Record

  • Worlds of trappers, pet owners collide in Boise area

    Ralph Maughan

    Here’s a place where Footloose.org could do some new work- Worlds of trappers, pet owners collide. Reports to the Idaho Statesman of injured dogs are three times higher this year. By Pete Zimowsky. Idaho Statesman – – – – – Because I mentioned Footloose, and Footloose’s E.D’s comment kind of got buried, I am moving…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

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