TRAPPING

Isern, Tom
Plains Folk: Muskrat and Mink
1998
"People from Minneapolis or Seattle drive though the Dakotas and they cannot understand why there are all those billboards damning animal rights and defending trapping as a way of life," writes Prof. Isern of North Dakota State University. "Those same people have neighbors, however, born and raised on the northern plains, who know exactly where those sentiments come from."

Klotz, Hattie
Fur Fashion to the Rescue : Trapping Eases New Zealand's Plague of Possums
March 2001
"After years of confrontation between fur fanatics and environmentalists, the lowly possum is emerging from the New Zealand bush to bring the two solitudes together. The quirk is in this unlikely mediator's method: everybody in New Zealand wants the possums dead. The Australian brush-tailed possum, put simply, is a pest of epidemic proportions.

Krause, Tom
Thank You Mr. Sevin, Sir ; Memories of a Bayou Trapper and Otter Conservationist
May 2001
The editor of The American Trapper magazine recounts the contributions to conservation of Louisiana trapper Lee Roy Sevin.

Sopuck, Robert
Trapping: A Romantic Way to Make a Living
February 2004
"Of all of the things we humans do to make a living nothing touches the earth as lightly as the fur trade," says Sopuck, vice-president of the Delta Waterfowl Foundation. "I am heartened by the spirit of Canada's trappers who continue to stubbornly ply their trade in the face of a modern world that seems to have forgotten the real lessons of nature."

Stone, James
Trapping the Hyperbole : Fur Producers, EU Agree on Humane Trapping Standards
August 1998
In 1997, the EU signed two international agreements that set the standards to be met for a trap to be called "humane", commit countries to determine which traps are humane, and require countries to prohibit all traps which do not meet these standards. The first was with Canada and Russia, and the second was with the US. With two strokes of the pen, these countries were exempted from an EU import ban on fur from certain species, and animal welfare interests accused the EU of selling out to commercial interests. But James Stone of the Canadian Mission to the EU wonder if this was really the case. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Vantassel, Stephen
The Uneasy Conscience of the Animal Rights Movement
September 1997
Based in Massachusetts, this trapper and certified animal control professional considers the contradictions and lies spread by leaders of the animal rights "religion". Reproduced with the author's permission. (This article is categorized under Management / Animal Rights)

Vantassel, Stephen
A Christian Minister Explains Why He Can Morally Trap God's Little Creatures
1995
"As I go about my trapping, customers usually ask if I had to go to school to learn my job. I smile and tell them that I learned the hard way, by experience. I then proceed to tell them, much to their surprise, that I have a Masters degree in Hebrew Bible." Reproduced with the author's permission. (This article is categorized under Management / Animal Rights)

Williams, Ted
Management by Majority: Who should decide if trapping should be banned - the public or wildlife professionals?
June 1999
From 1970 to 1975, the author was information officer with Massachusetts's Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. This article first appeared in Audubon Magazine, June 1999, and is reproduced with the author's permission. (This article is categorized under Management / Conservation)

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