“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.…
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Homeplace is a new podcast brought to you by Anna Richardson White, founder + CEO of Kentcali media and former host of Craftivity, a podcast she created for Michaels, the arts and crafts company. Homeplace focuses on the importance of home – where we’re born, where we go and what these places say about us. Anna will sit down with people from all walks of life to discuss what home means to them, how it defines them and how they either move away from it or towards it as they go through their l ...
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Introducing Homeplace, a captivating new podcast by Anna Richardson White, Founder and CEO of Kentcali, a pioneering media & communications consultancy. Known for her previous hit podcast Craftivity, created in partnership with the art supplies retailer Michaels, Anna now brings her unique storytelling to a more personal frontier: the concept of ho…
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