PIANOS AND ELEPHANTS CLASH AT STATEHOUSE
Published in the Burlington Free Press on April 11, 2015 Written by April Burbank, Free Press Staff Writer MONTPELIER – Activists are urging Vermonters to give up the option of selling anything that contains ivory. A law banning ivory and rhinoceros horn sales would be worth the sacrifice, they say, to stop the slaughter, illegal poaching and imminent extinction of African elephants. A House committee considered the ban this week, taking testimony from wildlife conservationis