Claude Dallas is one of the legends of the Northwest. About a quarter century ago, two F&G officers operating on a tip, discovered that he had trapped four bobcats a few days before the season started in Idaho near the Oregon border on a fork of the Owyhee river. This was unlucky for them as Dallas shot and killed them both including giving them the Coup d'gra. One officer's body, Pogue, was never found. Dallas was found guilty and except for a year's escape, spent 22 years in jail. He is soon to be released.

Things are less simple though. Pogue was known to be a vicious 300 pound cop and more than one honest man had considered popping him. Pogue was anti-hunter and anti-fisherman and considered both types to be murderers of innocent animals. His reputation was known far and wide. He would have made a great PETAnazi. When interviewed, the jurors would not have convicted Dallas if he had not given the final coup d'gra. Moreover, they said later, they would have let him go completely if they had known the beliefs of this PETAphile.

In any event, a new era starts with the release of Dallas.