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October 02, 2009
No Trapping—In Montana? - 5
by J.R. Absher
Supporters of a dangerous ballot initiative aimed at banning the use of traps to manage furbearers on public land in Montana have been cleared to begin acquiring the 24,400 petition signatures necessary to qualify the measure for the 2010 general election. The Montana Secretary of State’s office concluded last week that Florence-based Footloose Montana has until June 18, 2010 to obtain signatures from 5 percent of the total number of qualified voters in Montana, including 5 percent in each of the 34 legislative house districts. That translates into approximately 24,337 signatures to land the initiative on the November 2010 general election ballot. The group claims it seeks to ban trapping on public lands in the state for “scientific, public health and safety activities.” Terri Knapp, communications director for the Secretary of State, said the initiative has been titled I-160 and bears the official name “Montana Trap-Free Public Lands Act.” “The petition has been approved for signature gathering,” Knapp said. “This is a statutory amendment by initiative.”
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Comments (5)
i simply cannot understand why some people (anti-hunting bunny huggers) think that they have the right to tell hunters and trappers what they can and cannot do. the animals are a natural resource belonging to everyone. Antis choose to enjoy them on the discovery channel and that's fine, hunters enjoy the resource by hunting or trapping and putting the animals to use. If the antis can't leave us alone then I would like to propose my own issue for the ballot it's called the "Spay and neuter bunny humpers act of 2009"
The irony of the situation is that they think they are doing a good thing for the animals. All this will lead to is over population and then starvation and disease. On top of that there will be a great amount of environment damage as the animals look for more food and habitat.
Sherrill Philip
Wow that is asinine, how do they expect to manage them when those fur bearers become nuisance animals and there are too many of them for their animal control officers to deal with. Can't let this get by, the next step after this is likely no hunting on public land. Hopefully it will never get past signatures.
Yep, we lost trapping in Colorado to a ballot initiative. The same people that voted it out were calling me a year later complaining that a beaver was flooding their land. I was so upset about it I moved to New Hampshire. They are having wildlife - public conflicts like crazy and the feds go in and do animal damage control on our tax dollars and then waste the fur.
Good news on another front though, Maine just won a victory in a bill that would have killed trapping there. Massachusetts Is trying to get their trapping back by introducing an bill to re-instate trapping. Nice to see sportsman going on the offense.
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i simply cannot understand why some people (anti-hunting bunny huggers) think that they have the right to tell hunters and trappers what they can and cannot do. the animals are a natural resource belonging to everyone. Antis choose to enjoy them on the discovery channel and that's fine, hunters enjoy the resource by hunting or trapping and putting the animals to use. If the antis can't leave us alone then I would like to propose my own issue for the ballot it's called the "Spay and neuter bunny humpers act of 2009"
The irony of the situation is that they think they are doing a good thing for the animals. All this will lead to is over population and then starvation and disease. On top of that there will be a great amount of environment damage as the animals look for more food and habitat.
Sherrill Philip
Wow that is asinine, how do they expect to manage them when those fur bearers become nuisance animals and there are too many of them for their animal control officers to deal with. Can't let this get by, the next step after this is likely no hunting on public land. Hopefully it will never get past signatures.
Yep, we lost trapping in Colorado to a ballot initiative. The same people that voted it out were calling me a year later complaining that a beaver was flooding their land. I was so upset about it I moved to New Hampshire. They are having wildlife - public conflicts like crazy and the feds go in and do animal damage control on our tax dollars and then waste the fur.
Good news on another front though, Maine just won a victory in a bill that would have killed trapping there. Massachusetts Is trying to get their trapping back by introducing an bill to re-instate trapping. Nice to see sportsman going on the offense.
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