NATURALIST SUSAN MARSH SAYS IT IS TIME THAT SOCIETY HAD AN ADULT CONVERSATION ABOUT THE IMPACT OF FUR TRAPPING
Photo credit: Dmitry Azovtsev, http://www.daphoto.info
In early December I found a river otter caught in a snare. I wondered how I knew to find her. Was I guided by a thread I could not see as I bent to photograph starry ice crystals and trapped bubbles frozen in the ice of a beaver pond?
Were the bubbles her last breaths?
I could have easily missed her, taking my usual route around the ponds where the lighting and backdrop is best for photography. I could have found another sand path to the river. But the invisible thread connecting us led me to the place where she lay.
The animals are calling. When will we listen? The otter called me to witness her silky coat now dried and sprinkled with…
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Exposing the Big Game 
We need trap/snare saboteurs in this country. If they clogged up the legal system in the process, good!