| VICTOR, Idaho— Documents the Center for Biological Diversity obtained through a public-records request prove the snare that killed an adult female wolverine in Idaho’s Beaverhead Mountains last month did not have a stop, a mechanism required under state law that could have prevented the wolverine’s death.
Based on this information, the Center sent a letter today calling on the Idaho Department of Fish and Game to prosecute the trapper and limit trapping in crucial wolverine habitat in Idaho. “The death of this female wolverine was entirely preventable,” said Andrea Santarsiere, a senior attorney at the Center. “Rather than inform the public of this trapping violation, the Department of Fish and Game tried to bury it. Our state wildlife officials have to enforce their own trapping regulations and stop the needless killings of rare animals.” Wolverines have been proposed for listing under the Endangered Species Act. Adapted to live in… | 
Exposing the Big Game 
I can’t imagine that would happen in Idaho.
Wonders may never cease. There are only 300 or so wolverines left in the lower 48 – and the funny (not) thing is that climate change alarms are going of left and (maybe not) right and center as far as people are concerned, but ‘there’s not enough evidence’ to show that it affects wolverine habitat and snow melt! 😦 And this was under Dan Ashe’s Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, so it is rather ridiculous to think that this administration with Zinke and Pruitt would do anything.
These poor animals and others will be exploited until none are left if something isn’t done.
I’ll never forget the words of Dan Ashe, among the many that had me fuming – ‘there’s plenty in Canada!’ 😡