“We don't want Idaho to have a bad reputation. This is our home state. We love our home state. It's beautiful. We pride ourselves on our nature. We pride ourselves on our wildlife. And instead, we are continuing to do things that are… that are sickening.” - Ella Driever In 1995, wolves were reintroduced to central Idaho, and in 2003 a Boise High school called Timberline officially adopted a local wolf pack. Throughout the 2000, students went on wolf tracking trips and in their wolf packs range. But in 2021, Idaho's legislature passed Senate Bill 1211, 1211 allows Idaho hunters to obtain an unlimited number of wolf tags, and it also allows Idaho's Department of Fish and Game to use taxpayer dollars to pay private contractors to kill wolves. That means bounties on wolves, including on public lands. And in 2021, the Idaho Fish and Game Commission expanded the wolf hunting season and hunting and trapping methods. So it's not too surprising to learn that also in 2021, the Timberline pack disappeared. The students, the ones that cared about wolves, at least, were devastated. Last summer I went to D.C. with some of the Species Unite team for a wolf rally on Capitol Hill. While I was there, two young women gave a talk about what happened at Timberline in 2021. Their names are Ella Driver and Sneha Sharma. They both graduated from Timberline High School and were there when their wolf pack disappeared. Please, listen and share.…
A Weblog by Russ Turley
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On this penultimate NaPodPoMo show of 2010, you get another Christmas show. Christmas decorations are still going up and the tree lights are still being replaced. Part of the problem is that these fake trees hurt the fingers and arms. Ouch! It will all be worth it in the end though, right. Tomorrow Dave Moreno will be joining me for a discussion ab…
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I stole the name of today’s podcast from a show of the same name on Lifetime or some other cable channel. I saw a commercial for it during the Thanksgiving Day Detroit Lions game. Sam Elliott, looks like a winner. Anyway, I’m back from vacation and back into the show for the last few days of November. Tonight, a Christmas music show inspired by the…
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