COEUR d'ALENE - Bella the Husky will be part of a rally today at City Park honoring wolves killed in Idaho and Montana.

Bella lost a leg in a snare in the Boise National Forest. Her owner, Robert Norie, saved Bella from the snare and will accompany her to the rally that runs 3:30-7:30 p.m.

"There is no need for trapping or snaring or killing of any predators - and that goes for wolves," Norie said. "What Bella went through was wrong."

The rally is in protest of the Idaho wolf hunt season, which begins today.

The theme for the rally is "Wolves Belong." It includes speakers and authors, tribal leaders, musicians and wolf and wildlife advocates.

Idaho hunters have killed 379 wolves since federal delisting in 2011. Of those, 255 were shot and 124 were snared or trapped.

The Montana Game, Fish and Parks Commission recently voted to allow trapping in the coming hunt.

"The shooting, trapping, snaring and torture of wolves must stop," Predator Defense Director Brooks Fahy said. "Wolves were hunted to near extinction in the West in the 19th and 20th centuries. The killing served no purpose, as wolves pose no real threat to western livestock and help restore and preserve riparian systems."