Would you vote to ban trapping in Oregon?
BEND, Ore. (AP) — A group based in Central Oregon plans an anti-trapping measure for the 2014 ballot.
The TrapFree Oregon initiative would ban trapping of animals for their fur or other body parts and outlaw the buying or selling of fur or other parts of trapped animals, The Bend Bulletin reported Monday.
It also would make poisoning animals illegal but make exceptions for mice and other small rodent-like animals and larger animals that can't be controlled by non-lethal means.
"We are ready to go," said Lucinda Baker, executive director of TrapFree Oregon.
The movement to ban trapping started earlier this year in Bend after a half-dozen dogs were caught in traps in Central Oregon.
The state Fish and Wildlife Commission restricted traps near marked trails, trailhead and campgrounds to protect people and their pets, but Baker said the rules didn't go far enough.
TrapFree Oregon has submitted paperwork to the secretary of state's office. It expects to gather more than 100,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot, Baker said.
Voters in Oregon have twice rejected trapping bans, in 1980 and 2000.
Four states around the West have passed trapping bans — Arizona in 1994, Colorado in 1996, California in 1998 and Washington in 2000.
Trappers use traps to collect pelts for sale and to keep troublesome animals, from muskrats to coyotes, in check, said Don Nichols, fur sales manager for the Oregon Territorial Council on Furs Inc. The council has held an annual springtime fur sale in Prineville for about 40 years.
Opposition to trapping often comes from people who want to save every animal, he said.
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Information from: The Bulletin, http://www.bendbulletin.com
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press
Yes, I would vote to ban trapping. There is no reason in this day and age to keep this barbaric practice. It's cruel. Many countries have banned traps, and it's about time we did too.
Do not ban trapping, no wait a minute, maybe that would backfire on some of these people who have nothing better to do than try to destroy peoples ways of life. If we ban trapping, the predators and non desirable types of animals will become so plentiful it may cause some of these people to move out of the state. That would be a good thing. I will have to give this some more thought.
Why stop there? If these people are serious about stopping cruelty they should be passing laws making it illegal for animals to hurt and eat each other. I know that sounds crazy, but the point is that these trappers are taking animals in a far, far more "humane" manner than any of nature's creatures afford each other. While I understand that these people are trying to prevent perceived suffering, by allowing animal populations to run rampant they are simply setting up the conditions to allow nature to control the populations, more commonly known as mange, starvation, or forcing wildlife to search for food around humans. Look up some pics of mange...what a way to go. Â
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 These people need study wildlife in the wild, not in Walt Disney films.
Trapping should not be banned. These idiots are spewing emotional comments. No one and I mean NO ONE cares more about the animals and the outdoors more than a trapper. We're out there everyday tending the sets. And for those idiots who think we love to kill things, you don't know what you're talking about. That's obviously not fun. And for you bozos who think I should get a real job. I do have a real job and I put my daughter through college with my trapping money.
 @BuckOfama That's bs. Trappers don't care about animals. They hate animals. They only care about killing them. Trappers are sadists. Trapping is going to be banned in Oregon. You better believe it.
Trapping should not be banned. These idiots are spewing emotional comments. No one and I mean NO ONE cares more about the animals and the outdoors more than a trapper. We're out there everyday tending the sets. And for those idiots who think we love to kill things, you don't know what you're talking about.Â
 @BuckOfama Don't like when people expose the truth about people like you? Trappers do love killing animals. To make such an absurd claim like how you think trappers care about animals is laughable. You clearly are delusional.
Trapping does not need to be banned. It is a legitimate and sustainable method of harvesting wild furbearers, none of which are in any way in danger of extinction by trapping, due to effective management regulations. And think about this: PETA kills more animals every year than trappers do, and these animals are not even put to good use. Trappers at least sell the pelts and oftentimes the meat, too. Plus, the proceeds from the sales of our hunting/trapping licenses is put towards many conservation efforts.Â
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 @rick6565 I don't know how you define "conservationist" but as I know it, they are people who make effort to conserve wildlife and wild areas. Trappers do both: we conserve wildlife through responsible management, which includes reducing overpopulations and removing invasive species (such as nutria, for instance) so that native animals can better reproduce.  As I stated above, we also contribute to habitat conservation through our money spent on licenses and equipment, and we typically don't support large development projects that would fill in natural marshlands or cut down forests. The wilderness is a part of us, and we have a great respect for all that Mother Nature can provide.Â
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Also, and this is just me personally, but I don't believe in calling people "Scum" even if you don't agree with them!Â
 @FLTrapper Trappers are not conservationists. They trap and destroy wildlife.
Yes, the time has come to ban trapping. Until then, anyone who loves wildlife and dogs should be destroying any traps they come on public lands.
 @rick6565 You do know that coyotes and wolves are really nothing like dogs, yes? They can't read our facial expressions, they don't take cues from us to guide them, they don't bond in the same way, etc.
@rick6565 Snares kill, are cheap and can be put out by the hundreds, we do not resort to them because the rules are reasonable, when that changes, so will we, America was populated by folks deported from England for snaring.
No i would not vote to ban this. it may not be the stone age but there are some people who still make a living off pelts. if people are stupid enough to let their pets run wild then that's their fault.
 @RC95 About they get REAL JOBS?
@rick6565 @RC95 The Humane Society kills more animals than the trappers, and they sell the pelts
 @rick6565  Slaughterhouses and factory farms kill way more animals than hunters and trappers. =/ Sheesh... wonderful, sustainable family ranches kill more animals than hunter and trappers. Give it a rest.
 @Fancy Jack  @rick6565  @RC95 Hunters kill more animals than all of those groups you listed combined. Stop being a hypocrite.
@rick6565 @RC95 Hunting and trapping seasons are limited, but PETA, SPCA and the Humane Society have kill rates of 98%, killing millions of pets a year, every day, every week, every month. and these are Real Jobs
 @Fancy Jack  @rick6565  @RC95 BS. hunters and trappers kill more animals than anyone else or any other group are there. Hunters and trappers are destroyers of wildlife. The trappers who make money off of killing animals should get REAL JOBS.
Trapping needs to be banned, we don't live in stone ages.Trappers like sportsmen are lobbyist who just want to indulge in sadism and kill for pleasure / sport.Â
 @EthicalOne You obviously don't know many hunters. The goal is to kill is quickly and painlessly as possible.
@EthicalOne Actually, I kill with efficiency, in a manner which was reinforced by Ranger training in the Military, I trap near populated areas because I know how to capture the target species and I do it without their knowledge, when I was in Ranger School I taught them how to build a new trap, a deadfall, that they had not seen, during survival training, but I consider my leg hold trap for deer to be my greatest success.
Absolutely not! But Liberal Democrats will!Â
What I would vote for is for the dang "lawmakers" to STOP endlessly making laws and turning this country into an open air prison colony.
I wouldnt count on that springfielder you seen the gill net ban get shot down which was very suprising to me since a gill net is a wall of death catching any kind of aquatic life that swims near it
No. I will never vote to give local, state, or federal government another inch of control over anything.
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No I would not. Â But the Enviro-Nazi Liberals will make it happen one way or the other. Â Then they will whine when the Coyotes and other varmints kill their free range chickens, turkeys, goats, cats and dogs. Â
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 @rick6565  @Springfielder Name calling violates the commenting rules. Control yourself or take it somewhere else.
@rick6565 @Springfielder Somebody has a GOD complex
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You're unrealistic.Nazism are far-right Liberal Environmentalist are left to far-left. Liberalism is  far not far-right like Nazism so learn ideology before using random words because you're just waffling.
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If you wanna protect your cattles and goats make better fencing or stop cutting down all forests and invading the coyotes habitats.
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 @EthicalOne Nazism had elements of both the left and the right. But, last I checked, "Nazi whatever" or "whatever Nazi" is commonly accept slang meaning something along the lines of overly-controlling, strict, etc. Btw, coyotes don't exactly stay in the forest. They go wherever the farms are. It's easier prey. And people have every right to protect their herds by killing any animal that threatens it.
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"Nazism used elements of the far-right racist Völkisch German nationalistmovement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture which fought against the communists in post-World War I Germany.[6]"
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Hitler in Mein Kampf directly attacked both left-wing and right-wing politics in Germany, saying:
Today our left-wing politicians in particular are constantly insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the disarmament of Germany, whereas the truth is that this is the policy of traitors [...] But the politicians of the Right deserve exactly the same reproach. It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms.[23]
Hitler, when asked whether he supported the "bourgeois right-wing", claimed that Nazism was not exclusively for any class, and indicated that it favoured neither the left nor the right, but preserved "pure" elements from both "camps", stating: "From the camp of bourgeois tradition, it takes national resolve, and from the materialism of the Marxist dogma, living, creative Socialism".[24]
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@rick6565 @EthicalOne @Springfielder History contradicts your ignorance
 @Fancy Jack  @EthicalOne  @Springfielder Nazis are right wing extremists.
 @Springfielder have not heard of the enviro-nazi liberal label.  What is your label? Â
@drinkmorewater @Springfielder Reasonable and Prudent Men
@Springfielder I saw in an article in the Smithsolian today that a solar powered steam turbine system in the California Mojave desert is about to go into operation...supposed to save 400,000 tons of carbon emissions and provide power to 140,000 homes. Environmentalists are happy, right? NOPE! 'construction threatens the desert eco-system' and 'heated plumes of air could singe migrating birds". Enviro-Nazi Liberals, indeed.
 @hewhoo  @Springfielder Don't forget the Wind Farms that kill thousands of raptors every year.  No complaints from the Enviros there either.
No.
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We have a wolf and cougar problem
No!