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Indiscriminate Killing in Wyoming
The Continued Exploitation of Predators and Fur Bearing Animals
What follows are a series of public comments and letters to the Wyoming Game & Fish Department (WGFD) as well as a letter to the press with regards to current, WGFD-proposed trapping and lethal “predator-control” [de]regulations.
My motivation for making these documents public on this platform is to shed light on the ongoing, grossly unethical, anti-scientific, and legally-protected practices of the fur-trade and sport-trapping/hunting industry.
While the following letters are written in direct response to specific issues as they currently relate to the State of Wyoming, there are invariably identical regulations being proposed and passed in all states and countries throughout our world.
Many of the references and most of the research in the following letters are applicable well beyond Wyoming’s borders.
Please take the time to educate yourself about current trapping and sport-killing laws and regulations in your region. Utilize these documents and the references contained within them in any way you can to fight for progressive, ethical, conscientious, and scientifically-justified trapping and predator-control reform.
