<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dear Footloose Friends, <br><br>Subject: Trapping Advisory Committee to meet August 28 and 29<br><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">Next Tuesday and Wednesday the Trapping Advisory Committee will meet in Butte, and the public is welcome to attend, and to comment at noon both days. See FWP notice below. The committee is 60% trappers, and 40% non-trappers, based on the vote on I-177 in 2016, not on the number of trappers v. the number of non-trappers in the state.  Nevertheless, the ratio is better than in the past.  It is critically important for non-trappers to show up one day at these meetings; though hard to do for those of us with jobs.  Please spread the word, show up for even a couple of hours, and help get people to this one in Butte.  Thanks!  We need to keep the pressure on to show the indefensible destruction of traps on our public lands.<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b><br></b></div><div class="gmail_quote"><b>Issues to address:</b></div><div class="gmail_quote">1. <b>Regulations need to be re-written</b>; they are confusing and contradictory.  (See below for details)*</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2. <b>Urge mandatory 24-hour trap-check t</b>o reduce injury and fatality of non-target wildlife and companion animals and to reduce suffering.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">3. Put a<b> moratorium on beaver trapping on public lands,</b> with exceptions for protection of property and roads from flooding.  Reintroduce beaver from low lands to high country.  This will mitigate drought and fire.  <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">4. <b>Restrict predator and non-game trapping</b> for animals such as coyote, fox, badger, to a season, with license required and reports required for all animals taken, including non-target.  At this time, there are no regulations at all.  That means anyone can claim they are trapping for coyotes while catching endangered species, fur bearers, or pets.  No records are kept, no reporting required.  This undermines all other regulations and efforts to determine species' populations.  <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">5. Put <b>signage</b> up in areas that are actively being trapped.  Hunters wear orange and hunting season is well publicized, but trappers give no warning to the public about dangerous traps hidden on public lands.  Why not?  In the past, there was no signage because trappers stole each others' traps.  Now they say non-trappers will steal their traps.  However, it is illegal to tamper with a trap.  <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Set guns, which are just like traps, have been illegal for decades.  Even leaving a fishing rod unattended with a hook on it is illegal.  Yet traps are legal to set almost anywhere on public lands, and are far more harmful than a fish hook.  More people than ever are recreating on our public lands.  It's time trappers take responsibility for their actions as hunters and anglers do.  <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">



















<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">*2017-18 TRAPPING REGS information:<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">2017 Furbearers &
Trapping regulation booklet:  <span><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://fwp.mt.gov/fwpDoc.html?id=82229" target="_blank">http://fwp.mt.gov/fwpDoc.html?id=82229</a></span></u></span><span></span></span>

</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">This booklet contains
regs for trapping 1) furbearers and 2) predators and non-game wildlife. 
Notably, regs for wolf trapping are published separately and are typically
different regs.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:"Songti SC Bold"">》</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">It is unlawful to remove your dog, your
cat, your child, yourself, a protected species (e.g. raptor), or a game animal
(e.g. deer) from a trap without the trapper's permission - even if the trap is
illegally set.  </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Because to do so
would, at minimum, disturb the trap.  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">"It is unlawful
destroy, disturb or remove <b>any</b> trap, snare or trapped wildlife ...
without permission of the owner of the trap or snare...." (page 3)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">The regs make no
distinction between legally and illegally set traps.  As the reg reads,
disturbing ANY trap is unlawful.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">》Setbacks from public
land recreation areas, campgrounds, fishing access sites, designated trails and
trail heads DO NOT apply to traps that are set in/ on water.  </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Thus, there are no
setbacks for traps that are ("originally") placed in the water. 
(page 5)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">"Water
sets" are defined as "any trap originally set in or on a body of
water." These traps "include traps on floats in the water and
those that are set with a minimum of one-third of the trap
submerged."  (page 3)<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">》Conibears that are
7" x 7" or larger that are (originally) set in water DO NOT require
placement within a container (that would minimize non-target
"capture").  Nor do these lethal water traps require a setback </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">(see above).  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Think about trails
that follow creeks, people recreating at fishing access sites and lakes,
etc.  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Only "ground
sets using 7 x 7 inches and larger body-gripping traps..." require the
specific containers.  (page 5)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">"Ground
sets" do not include traps originally set in/ on water.  (pages 2-3)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">》Those who are
trapping predators and/ or non-game are NOT required to report to FWP the
"incidental" trapping of dogs. </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""> <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">The requirement to
report trapped dogs to FWP only applies to those trapping furbearers (and
wolves, if I correctly remember).  (see:  non-target species under
general trapping regs, page 4; and, captures of domestic dogs under furbearer
regs, page 5)<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Predator species = <b>coyote*</b>,
weasel, striped and spotted skunks<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">Non-game species
include red fox, badger and raccoon.  <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">* canid scent lures
have been shown to attract dogs, coyotes, and wolves<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><i><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">This lack of
reporting trapped dogs by those who are trapping predators could be a key
reason for the low numbers of trapped dogs as far as FWP is concerned.</span></i><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times","serif"">There are more
issues, especially concerning the published details about the trapper education
course suddenly canceled.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">Thanks and please spread the word!<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:"Times","serif""><span></span></span>

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