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Jail bait: Pro-wolf activist chains self to Idaho governor’s office door

Pro-wolf protesters talk with Gov. Butch Otter's secretary after they chained a member's arm to the door of the governor's office on Monday. (Betsy Z. Russell)
Pro-wolf protesters talk with Gov. Butch Otter's secretary after they chained a member's arm to the door of the governor's office on Monday. (Betsy Z. Russell)

WILDLIFE --  A Virginia woman has come to Idaho's Capital City to sacrifice herself at the Governor's office in the name of wolves.

I'm not sure what her complaint is -- Idaho boasts one of the most successful endangered species reintroduction efforts in U.S. history, with more wolves than any other state in the West -- but she's taking a play out of the animal rights/anti-hunting playbook to get national headlines.

Betsy Russell, the S-R's Boise reporter, is on the scene to report the story here.

"Otter, ironically, was in Virginia," Russell notes.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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