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        • "This morally suspect male-bonding event is ecologically indefensible"
        • About the coyote photo on this Petition
        • Action Alert: 2017 Coyote-Hunting Contest in Marshall, Minnesota
        • Alarming response to local action to "Prohibit Wildlife-Killing Contests in MN"
        • Correspondence with an Opponent
        • Good summary in the City Pages
        • How to Kill a Wolf - An Undercover Report from the 2013 Idaho Coyote and Wolf Derby.
        • Letter to the Marshall City Council
        • Literature References
        • MN coyote-killing contest deceptively labeled to "Save the Birds."
        • MN Political-Party Resolution
        • MN Statutes Allow for Game & Fish Taking Events, not Coyote-Killing Contests
        • News from the Coyote-Hunting Tournament, 2/20/2016
        • Petition Delivered 2/18/2016
        • Petition description and invitation to signers
        • Petition Letter
        • Petitions to Prohibit Wildlife-Killing Contests--Please Sign!
        • Project Coyote: ending wildlife-killing contests throughout North America
        • Selected Comments
        • Should Minnesota adopt California hunting-contest regs?
        • Should Minnesota adopt hunting-contest regs based on its fishing-contest regs?
        • Talking Points
        • Time to call the MN Governor's Office
        • Time to take local action in Marshall, MN
        • Warning: advocates are advised to avoid personal confrontation
        • Wildlife-killing contests violate the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation
    • Other Animal Issues
      • All-Animals Blog
        • "Alarming response" (moved)
        • "Farm Fresh Meats" truck by Banksy
        • "I am an animal. I think, feel, remember. I want to live." Empatia.
        • 2015 GOP playing political games with MN Env. & Nat. Res. Trust Fund
        • Argonne WI predator-hunting contest inflates fantasies, draws complaints
        • Biofuels bill would subsidize dirty energy
        • Colorado wildlife officials "experiment" with predator-killing programs
        • Comment on USFWS proposal to delist Greater Yellowstone Area Grizzly Bears
        • Compassionate Conservation (from Medwid to Perich to here).
        • GOP playing political games with Minnesota Legacy Funding, 1/28/2015
        • Great talk by canid ecologist Chris Schadler about coyotes, wolves, sheep, people, etc.
        • Groundwater bill would trash protection for sensitive wetlands
        • Make It Possible
        • Manufacturer will discontinue d-Con consumer products in U.S.
        • McCollum: National Park and Wilderness Water Protection Act
        • Minnesota's Fifty-Foot Wetland Buffer
        • MN AIS-Prevention Program Under Attack
        • MN bill advances to prohibit MN DNR restrictions on lead shot in hunting
        • MN DNR: temporary improvements for boats: 30-acre dead zone.
        • MN GOP trying to duke it out with U.S. EPA on wood heater regs
        • MN GOP Wants Cost Control on Clean-Water Standards
        • MN SF 2238 / HF 2605: Please add Reimbursement for Non-Lethal Beaver-Damage Avoidance
        • New bill would make things easier for poachers the first time they're caught
        • Night-Vision Scopes, Poachers, and Shooting in the Dark
        • NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation: "red-carpet treatment" for air rifle industry?
        • Opposed to MI DNR Proposal for "Liberalized" Nighttime Coyote-Hunting Allowances
        • Public comment requested on MN timber-harvest goals.
        • Sibling Petitions (moved)
        • Sulfate bills would suspend existing water-quality standards
        • Tips on Testifying Before a Committee
        • USDA Wildlife Services: setting requirements for a new EA on predator-damage management in Nevada
        • Veganism and conservationism in the Judeo-Christian creation story
        • Wildlife management by the numbers can be interesting--as long as you don't take the bait
      • All-Animals FAQ
        • How can I practice non-lethal wildlife control at home?
        • Left, Right, Fish & Game: comparison #1: what's a quick death like for an animal?
        • What does it mean that some animals are not categorized as "game"?
        • What's "Fair Chase"?
        • What's a "harvestable surplus"?
        • What's the meaning of the term "animal rights"?
        • Why is environmental quality an animal issue?
        • Why is there a controversy about toxic vs. non-toxic ammunition?
    • Trapping
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      • Bad News
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      • Federal Legislation
        • H.R. 2657 Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act
      • Links
      • MN Legislation to Protect Dogs from Traps and Snares
      • Municipal Ordinances
        • City of Duluth MN Legislative Code concerning Trapping
        • City of Two Harbors MN Animal Control Ordinance concerning Trapping
        • City of White Bear Lake MN Municipal Code concerning Trapping
      • News
      • Other State Legislation
        • CA: no body-gripping trapping for recreation or fur trade.
        • CT: leg-hold buffer zone
        • IL: body-grip buffer zone
        • MN 2012: donated lead poisoning
        • OR: petition to Fish & Wildlife Commission
        • WI: challenging private-property rights.
        • WI: dog-safe
      • Photos
      • Trapping Blog
        • "That's just the way things are"
        • 2015 MN Senate hearing of SF 592: to prohibit recreational wolf trapping and snaring
        • All Blog Entries
        • All they knew how to say was "you're wrong."
        • Boggess leads MN DNR in a direction incompatible with hunting and dogs
        • Call for realistic simulations of the release of a live dog from a lethal trap or snare.
        • Calls for five-year wolf hunting & trapping moratorium continue
        • DNR Meetings
        • Dog Lovers 4 Safe Trapping MN bill would help to protect dogs from lethal traps and snares!
          • 2012 MN trapping legislation: dog-proof
          • 2012 MN trapping legislation: fake
          • Carlson's typo
          • McNamara's typo
          • McNamara's Typo Fixed (traded for "magic awning"?)
          • MN Rep. Ward's Good Bill to Protect Dogs from Body-Gripping Traps
          • MN Sen. Wiger's Good Bill to Protect Dogs from Body-Gripping Traps
        • Dogs and traps on trails in the Mat-Su Valley, Alaska.
        • Empty fixes
        • Failure to Communicate, 4/14/2012.
        • Idaho Fish and Game gathers stakeholders, examines body-gripping trapping conflicts
        • Judging from Otis in a trap
        • Lethal trap & snare release kit--impractically large and heavy, but still ineffective.
        • Local Govts.
        • Maine emergency trapping rules, 12/9/2014
        • MN 2015 body-gripping setback bill would help to protect dogs along roads and trails
        • MN written-permission bill would protect landowners and their dogs from hidden traps.
          • MN bill advances in 2017 to require written landowner permission for trapping
        • MTA legislative report avoids the facts.
        • Muskrat Misinformation (vs. the place of Muskrats in the Natural World)
        • My experience with the MTA / MN-DNR trap-release instructions
        • Nature deficit disorder and unsafe open spaces
        • Quadrants of Dog Owner's Goals vs. Trappers' Advice (Ethical or Slob).
        • Radical statewide solution proposed in Oregon
        • Scott's "Dogs & Traps" Seminars
        • Sierra Club withdraws from the debate.
        • Sportsmen's bell
        • State of WI
        • Synopsis, 4/15/2012
        • The same people who brought us ineffective protections from trapping...
        • Thoughts on private-property trapping regulations
        • Trappers' double standard on private-property rights
        • Trappers' myth
        • Trapping and the MN Walk-In Access Program: points to ponder.
        • Trapping controversy: Minnesota dogs still not protected in the 2014-2015 season
        • WB Twp. Board
        • WB Twp. PubSafety
        • WBL City Council
        • Wolf trapping vs. dog safety
        • Your Legislators: not protecting your dogs from body-gripping traps.
      • Trapping FAQ
        • All FAQs
        • Can a dog's tongue be caught in a dog-proof raccoon trap?
        • Can I kill a dog for trespassing?
        • Can they really set traps in the ditch along my road?
        • Don't you know your voice is stronger as part of an organization?
        • How are lethal traps different than cars?
        • How do I recognize a fake dog-release procedure?
        • How do I release a dog from a body-gripping trap?
        • How much difference do cable restraints make for non-target animals?
        • If I'm trapping legally, how can anyone say I'm doing anything wrong?
        • Is a rescue harder with a smaller dog (or a larger trap)?
        • Trap Release
        • What are some of the categories of trapping?
        • What can we learn from the MN DNR Trap-Incident Reports?
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        • What trap enclosures FAIL to protect dogs?
        • What's "incidental catch"?
        • What's a trap "set"?
        • What's an "anti"?
        • What's an exit-only door?
        • What's this site: "pro" or "anti"?
        • Where can I find and sign petitions to protect dogs from trapping?
        • Who records and tracks incidents of dogs killed or injured by traps?
        • Why are there fake trap-release instructions in the MN Hunting & Trapping Handbook?
        • Why can't traps just be outlawed?
        • Why do trappers make vague statements like "... that would make trapping ineffective for some species"?
        • Why do trappers prefer to use body-gripping traps?
        • Why do you support responsible trapping?
        • Why don't trappers make their traps more selective?
        • Why should MN switch from lethal snares to cable restraints?
        • Why won't trappers put up warning signs?
    • Wolf Management
      • Wolf Blog
        • "Fur-Ever Wild" exhibits--and the fur farm just behind them
        • 2011 MN Senate: wolf delisting hearing lacks public testimony, 4/7/2011
        • 2011 MN Senate: wolf-hunt moratorium is quietly repealed, 4/12/2011
        • 2012 MN DNR Plan for Public Taking of Wolves "Just like we do those other species."
        • 2016 MN LCCMR Grant Requests for Wolf Study and Education
        • Another budget-rider attack planned on the Gray Wolf
        • Call for smartphone app: wildlife mortality report.
        • How to avert a "perfect storm" of deadlocked funding for the MN Predator Control Program
        • Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators
        • MDHA's Mark Johnson NOT a proper candidate for LSOHC Executive
        • Mech et al. vs. ESA protections for the Gray Wolf
        • MN House Agriculture Finance Committee jokes about non-lethal wildlife management, but serious about wolf/elk compensation
        • MN House floor: Game & Fish Bill is passed with wolf amendments, 5/5/2014
        • MN House Mining & Outdoor Rec. Committee confused over State vs. Federal wolf-control funding
        • MN House Mining & Outdoor Recreation Committee hears only what it wants to hear about wolves
        • MN House: wolf-management hearing, 1/28/2014, critical excerpts.
        • MN House: wolf-management hearing, 1/28/2014, non-lethal
        • MN Senate: Wolf Data Bill hearing, Environment and Energy, 3/11/2014
        • MN Senate: Wolf Data Bill hearing, State & Local Government, 3/17/2014
        • MN Senate: wolf hunting & trapping moratorium hearing, 3/14/2013
        • MN wolf-livestock-conflict prevention grants!
        • National Wolf Recovery Plan
        • New Proposal: list the Gray Wolf as "Threatened" throughout its historic range in the lower 48.
        • New York Times wolf-control documentary ignores non-lethal methods
        • Our Wisconsin, Our Wildlife: meet the barstool biologist
        • Quiz: what's your Wolf Opinion Profile?
        • Some videos featuring livestock-guardian dogs.
        • USFWS Wolf Livestock Demonstration Project Grants
        • Who are the MN DNR's primary clients? Sources of funds in the MN DNR budget.
        • Why don't we have the livestock depredation-control BMPs we asked for? Why are we asking again?
        • Why we kill predators.
        • Wildlife Services pretends to assess its operations in Idaho
        • WSU Administration vs. WSU Expert on the Killing of the Profanity Peak Wolves
      • Wolf FAQ
        • What's a self-regulating wildlife population?
        • What's your position on MN Wolf Management?
        • Why so much more fuss about wolves than other large predators?
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Trapping

Old Petitions:

  • Petition for Safe Public Lands (to the Minnesota State Legislature).
  • Petition to Stop Killing MN Dogs ((to the Minnesota State Legislature).
  • Petition for Protection from Trapping (to White Bear Township, Minnesota).

This blog on trapping problems & solutions:

  • Blog
    • MN bill would protect dogs from lethal traps and snares.
    • MN bill would require written landowner permission to trap on private land.
    • All blog entries
  • Bad News (an alarmingly-long but incomplete list of non-target trapping incidents)
    • Headline Images of MN Bad News.
  • FAQ (frequently-asked questions)
    • What can we learn from the MN DNR Trap Incident Reports?
    • What trap enclosures fail to protect dogs?
    • How are lethal traps different than cars?
    • Why do you support responsible trapping?
    • What are some of the categories of trapping?
    • Why don't trappers make their traps more selective?
    • How do I release a dog from a body-gripping trap?
    • What do you think of the trap-release instructions that are available to dog owners?
    • Where can I find and sign petitions to protect dogs from trapping?
    • All FAQs
  • Policy Making
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    • Wisconsin
    • White Bear Lake, MN (good news)
    • White Bear Township, MN (bad news)
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    • Federal
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