ATLANTA, GEORGIA (Enviro Snowflake Brief)— Ten states have approved Trap the Trapper contests, which will allow wildlife preservationists to choose up to (3) well known and politically vocal state trappers, and up to (3) state wildlife agency leaders.
If any of the chosen prey refuse to participate, they will be stripped of their state-trapping license, and the state officials chosen will be fired from their agency leadership jobs.
For years, wildlife preservationists have worked to educate the public on the dirty “ol’boy” secrets of how state wildlife agencies promote killing contests, and who also use false PR claims to protect and hide the cruel and unnecessary 1890s trapping of wildlife.
Finally, voters in multiple states are taking action!
Similar to wildlife trapping regulations in each state, the human trapping contest will include all, but snare traps, in the contest… legal trap types:
- Box/cage traps (modified for human capture)
- Conibear™-type traps (limb damage expected)
- Foothold/steel-jaw trap (limb damage expected)
A spokesman for the Trap the Trappers contest, who is overseeing all the state contests, is clear that the intention is to avoid any accidental deaths, and thus, snares are prohibited from use.
Each state event will take place over a 48-hour weekend in order to avoid the chosen state agency employees missing any days at work. The details of the contest will be published by the end of February, and Georgia will kick things off in March.
Georgia is one of the states, which not only allows coyote killing contests, but also has a state agency sanctioned one- let that sink in. In addition, Georgia’s Department of Natural Resources’ leadership actively promotes false and misleading claims about coyotes, in the face of the best available science, to justify these cruel and needless contests in the state.
The first three nominated GA DNR state agency employees are:
- Mark Williams – Commissioner
- Rusty Garrison- Director, Wildlife Resources
- John Bowers – Chief of Game Management
DNR “hood winks” their favorite trappers, and looks the other way as leadership and the sadists drink beers together. It all adds up to a “house of horrors” for coyotes. Good luck to the trappers and agency leaders from Georgia to Maine with the trap on their foot.
Renowned wildlife biologist, Carter Niemeyer, Boise, ID, who was part of the team that re-introduced gray wolves to Yellowstone and a best selling author, gives the Trap the Trappers human prey participates a preview of what to expect.
“Standing out in the cold for 1-2 days with no water or food and a metal trap compressing the blood flow to an extremity, and if you wiggle much it might cut to bone is pretty much what to expect, so you fellows might want to jump into that box cage,” says Carter.
