Comments on: Groups Petition Montana to End Wolverine Trapping
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By HP on 08-03-12 @ 7:15 am
I wonder who’s got the dirt on the FWP managers that make these unpopular and unnecessary decisions. It also could be because these critters are higher on the chain than the trappers and management
By ride4fun on 08-03-12 @ 9:35 am
No animal should be trapped—wolverines or otherwise. There are so few wolverines left, theyshould be on an endangered list. Only about 45 in all of Glacier.
By brokenbutcher on 08-03-12 @ 12:00 pm
Trapping is about as outdated as whaling… Mt continues to express its infintile behavior whenit comes isues like these.
By terryt on 08-05-12 @ 9:08 am
I trapped as a child and had a much better understanding of the outdoors and nature from it. I also made money from it, to take that from our children is just another takeaway we dont need.
You could say the same for many old customs. While I dont need see a need to continue a
season for wolvorines lets not belive that they are endangered by any strech.
By Clarity on 08-05-12 @ 3:44 pm
To be clear. Trapping is the primative activity of brutally trapping an animal’s limb, head or torso in a snapping mechanical device, often breaking bones in the process and causing
immense suffering. Often toes or paws are severed, or the limb is twisted-off in a frantic,
agonizing effort to escape, and the animal dies later. After the animal has been held in the trap,
injured and in immense fear for an indeterminate time, it may die, be ripped apart by predators,
or a trapper will arrive to stand on it’s body to squeeze the air out of it until it slowly suffocates
to death in agony. The purpose of this obscentiy is so its skin can be removed for decoration
and profit. Large volumes of ‘non-target’ animals, including lynx, owls, eagles, mammals and
pets, are caught in the process and are regularly ‘disposed of’ by trappers. To impose this
brutality on any animal is outrageous and inhuman. To impose this brutality on a species that is
struggling to survive and has a low reproduction rate, when estimates state there are only 250
to 300 wolverines in the Lower 48? There is simply no possible justification for this. None.
By terryt on 08-05-12 @ 4:27 pm
ClarityYou clearly have never trapped and know nothing of it, I am sure you have no experiance at
all. Sounds like you are getting your info from peta. All the years I trapped I never never had a
animal chew off or leave its body part in a trap. I am sure you dont want to or belive the truth
but thats it. The part of large volumes of by product trapping is all hog wash. Instead of
spouting the pete mantra go out with a good trapper on his lines some day and experiance the
truth but I am sure you wont cause you would have to get off your couch and go out in the cold.
The estimate of how many wolvorines that are in the lower 48 is just that a guess.In the 1800
there we never that many to begin with as there have always been and always will be a low
population animal. If you know anything about them( I doubt) you would know there home
territorys are huge. Get real knowledge first befor you spout not propaganda from peta.
By Clarity on 08-06-12 @ 3:39 am
Dear TerryT, respectfully, I know the truth is uncomfortable, it makes people very defensive. But, it has to be said and faced. In the Rocky Mountains I have worked alongside and talked
with active trappers. I listened to the trapper’s stories of ‘wring-outs’ and the toes, legs or nails
they would sometimes find in their traps. I was dismayed at trapper’s ‘complaints’ about
people’s dogs that got caught in their traps and how they angrily blamed the pet owners for
letting dogs run off a leash in our forest trails. I listened to a longtime trapper who told me (and
a room full of locals) that they stopped because they recognize the extent of the cruelty. Leg-
hold traps are banned in many US States and Europe, and I’m sure will soon also be banned in
Montana. Whether or nor a toe, paw or limb is left behind depends which traps are beings used
because popular traps grip bodies or heads in which case there is no chance an animal can
tear-off a body part to “wring-out”. Trappers speak for themselves. The FACTS speak for
themselves.
By jennifer on 08-08-12 @ 2:28 pm
“Humanity will be Judged, by its treatment of Animals”
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