KENT COUNTY, MI — Betsy López-Wagner keeps a poster inside her home office in a rural part of West Michigan about 15 miles east of Grand Rapids.
It states on the poster: “If you see a problem and you feel that something should be done about it, and you look around and you see that no one else is doing anything — you’re elected.”
The quote is from the late Goldman Prize-winning environmentalist Nick Carter, who’s research brought together six African countries to create the world’s first multinational enforcement body to fight illegal wildlife trafficking in 1996…