I'am working on a paper for school on why trapping should be legal any info or oppions you can give me would be helpful.


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Heater85

Heater, here is a round about answer. 20 years ago, the fir trade was at it's peak. Prices were high so it was profitable to trap. Trappers kept the population of yotes, foxes, and cats at a manageable level. Trappers kept predators down in breeding areas of the ducks, so the Duck population was also at an all time high. Through proper management of predators, habitat for game animals is benefited. Prices droped through the efforts of groups like PETA, who have made it un-popular to wear fir. Less people are trapping, so predators have increased in population. Right now in Nevada we have an over population of coyotes, this has caused our deer population to stagnate. The government spends 1 million dollars a year to kill 100,000 coyotes by air. I think that the money would be better spent on bounties. Hunters would kill more yotes and cost to the taxpayer would go down. Just some thoughts on the subject.

The first thing that came to mind when I read your post was, why not! The simple fact is that we humans have basicaly, over the years, killed off most of the large preditors(mountain lions,wolves,ect. By doing so it upset the real balance of nature as to preditor verses pray species. Prey species as a rule have much larger litters than the animals that feed upon them thus assuring that there is a viable population of each. By taking out the preditor factor we have created an imbalance in the natural scheme of nature. By doing so we have oblegated our selves to be the stewerds of the land. One of the ways we do this is through hunting and trapping. If we don't take on this responsibility and allow the the animals that would normally be kept in check(population wise) by predation, they will soon over populate their supporting habitat. When what happens mother nature will step in and she practices genocide. What I mean by that is that anytime a species is allowed to over populate not only will they start dieing off to starvation but the gene pool is weakened. The animals that normally would be eaten by a preditor(the weak and dumb) are allowed to pass on their genes to future offspring thus weaking the gene pool as a whole. Finally, these more disease prone animals will start to die off in numbers.When these are gone mother nature will slowly repopulate the area again. In a perfect balanced world these situations don't happen for the most part. It is our job,our responcibilty, to see that these situations don't happen. One of the most effective tools we have at our disposal is hunting and trapping. For a no dought better explation on why to allow trapping you should contact your local D.F.G. or D.N.R.biologist. I'am sure he can help you a lot more than I have. Good luck on your paper.

well put pro trapper.

heater85;I don't think the D.F.G. or the D.N.R. can sat it any better than protrapper said it.
if he doesn't mind go with his info.
well said Protrapper!!!!!

I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest

remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.

ProbTrapper...Where the heck were you when I was writing papers? LOL Nicely said.

Fur bearing animals like the fox,racoon,skunk etc. Are the main carriers of rabies, so they need to be kept in check. Trapping is the most efficient way to do this. For some more info. on trapping go to www.nationaltrappers.com

Edited by - Pesky Critters on 02/17/2002 13:13:47

Scanner1, What's wrong with PETA? In my neck of the woods it stands for &quot; people eating tasty animals&quot; . Just saw that in your response and couln't resist. <img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Thanks for the kind words guys, and heater85 your more than welcome to use anything I may have said on your paper. Probtrapper.