Quick, when you hear “fur trapper” what do you think? Probably not the high desert of Joshua Tree National Park or bobcat pelts — but that’s exactly where a battle is being waged over fur trapping just outside the park’s boundaries. A legal loophole puts no restriction on the number of bobcats that can be [ more... ]

A mountain lion shot down in a halo of gunfire by the draconian Berkeley PD in a neighborhood near the Gourmet Ghetto was mourned by city residents. “May we protect our wildlife,” another person printed out on a piece of paper. “If we save them, we save ourselves. ‘Thou shalt not kill?’ Remember?” The shooting, [ more... ]