Anti file suit in Maine

[Chuckgrmi]

Anti's File Another Suit To Prevent Trapping in Maine
8/19/08


The anti's never stop. Two anti-hunting groups filed suit last week in federal court in order to make wildlife officials in Maine take more steps to prevent the incidental taking of Canada lynx. The problem is, like previous efforts, this is really a backdoor attempt to get rid of all trapping period.
As many sportsmen know, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund (SLDF) helped defend against a similar suit brought about last year by the Animal Protection Institute (API). The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife settled it by agreeing to restrict trap sizes in areas where Canada lynx exist.

However, the Wildlife Alliance of Maine and the Animal Welfare Institute have filed another case following several lynx being captured following last year’s settlement. The new lawsuit claims that the new restrictions imposed last year don’t go far enough to protect the threatened lynx and that additional restrictions are needed. In addition, according to the lawsuit, the antis intend to file an injunction stopping the 2009 trapping season which begins in mid-October.

Amazingly, all eight of the lynx that were captured were released alive, but that isn’t stopping the antis. Just like the last case and a recent one from Minnesota, a win in this case could well set a precedent to stop not just trapping, but other outdoor sports if species protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are found in the area.

The U.S. Sportsmen’s Legal Defense Fund (SLDF) is reviewing the case and determining the best method of confronting this latest shot across the bow.

They have too much money. We will be fighting them until the end of time

[AFarCry]

When I hear of a group fighting trapping, I just think back to when I was a kid skinning for a fur buyer. Stuff was worth good money until the antis really hurt the market. They would pay for signs on the taxis in New York. Things like a lady wearing a full-length fur coat and the coat would be dripping blood. Prices dropped and most people quit hunting fox in our area because they were worth so little. Then, the Fox overpopulated and they began to get mange. Their hair would fall out and they would have open sores all through their body. They stunk and suffered horribly before dying. I guess they got their wish and saved the animals from a bullet or a trap.
Don

[seaotter]

Its insanity. But the antis get most of their support from people in the city. Those that don't know animals close up. They are abstarcts, cute, cuddly creatures frolicing in the forest. Not the wild animal they are. Thats where the money and support is, in the cities.
Of course not everyone from cities are ignorant. There are people with rational minds. The big problem, they poison childrens minds at a young age.

Mark

[blind bud]

I AGREE WYTH YOU DON 100 PERCEBT DON.
MARCUS

[Leep]

My good friend Bobby from Highland , Wyoming, (now northern Calif) trapped for a lot of years there. he told me back in 1981 that when he caught a cat (bob( he could walk right up to the trap and pat the cat on the head with no adverse reactions from the cat...If you wanted to release one it was easy to do...

He used to put a pie pan and hang it up to twirl in the wind with a jack Rabbit leg to swing just below it. Plant the trap right under the pie pan and rabbit leg. Worked every time..
Coyotes were another thing altogether. He used to roll a big roll of heavy black plastic out and crawl out on it and set his coyote trap. They were very hard to trap..
Foxes? Find a high hummock with a trap set on it and a little scent. Then put a red scrap of a rag on a bush so it will flap in the wind.. Bobby said the fox would see the flag and go to a high point to see what it was..(.a LOT of wind in Highland, Wyoming)

He caught a lot of fur over the years...
Leep:

[AFarCry]

Interesting. I never tried for bobcats but did have one interesting experience with a coyote set. It was in the mountains in Oregon and a cougar got in my trap. I had it set with a drag for bigger animals. It took the trap about 100 yards until the drag caught solidly on a tree. It then kept going, snapping the chain like it was nothing. I felt some nervousness trying to track that one.
Don

[Leo]

All eight cats were released unharmed?

How do they know?

Pretty easy to lie about catching one and not producing any proof. They'd have no grounds for stinking it up again unless a reason was created.

WAY TO CONVENIENT! Sounds like some made up fantasy to me. If you caught one and let it go unharmed why report it? Why is this even believed? Seriously, is there actually proof eight cats were caught?

In some states if you hit a mountain lion with a car it doesn't exist. It doesn't even matter if the body is lying right there! You must have brought it from another state and put it there! But if you catch a lynx in a leghold trap and let it go everyone believes you???

OK, I'm pretty disgusted right now.