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...board has been controlled for too long by hunting and trapping interests," says Aaron Medlock, coordinator of Protect Pets and Wildlife, the group that is sponsoring Question One. "It does not represent the interests of the population...
...rubber-jaw leghold traps, both of which crush the limbs of animals they catch. Leghold traps pose a serious danger to household pets as well as the animals trappers mean to catch. "For every target animal, there are two to three untargeted animals that are trapped," says Aaron Medlock, legislative policy analyst for the Humane Society...
People like DiFiore are making the sort of impact that a disillusioned Graham was seeking when he left the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980, after serving in Viet Nam, with the U.S. delegation to the United Nations and on NATO's Nuclear Planning Group. About this time, he met Medlock, a journalist who in 1980 was working for Quest magazine when it formed a Giraffe society to reward the intrepid. When the magazine folded in 1981, Medlock nurtured the neck-stretching idea with a little money from supporters and began persuading radio stations to air a short account of Giraffes...
...Graham and Medlock, by then married, moved their project from a New York City apartment to Langley. Despite much scrimping, last year the $170,000 budget ended up $35,000 in the red, and the couple were barely able to pay themselves $17,000 each. The project's survival is due mostly to the generosity of 18 foundations and private donors. "It's a profound idea that won't save the world, but might make a lot of folks feel better," says William L. Bondurant, executive director of the North Carolina-based Babcock Foundation, which so far has donated...
...over community opposition, shut it down. How many of us could live up to the example of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson of Claremore, Okla., who financed the opposition to a planned nuclear power plant by mortgaging her farm and raffling handmade quilts? None of us, though, should be intimidated, says Medlock. "There's something each of us can do to make the world a better place...