TrailSafe: For Humane Trails. Keeping Nevada trails and recreation safe from steel jaw leghold traps.

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Nevada Board of Wildlife Commissioners: Report Card. Must read!! Dr. Don Molde, long-time animal activist, proves, using Nevada Dept. of Wildlife's own statistics, that efforts to eliminate coyotes and mountain lions have NO effect on mule deer populations, despite unfounded claims to the contrary.

Predators targeted in Nevada to protect the deer population
May 22, 2010 Reno Gazette Journal

Feds, Nevada officials clash over deer predator control
By Jeff DeLong • jdelong@rgj.com • March 8, 2010

Ban Cruel Traps A basic "How-To" website for trap-free campaigns.

Project Coyote: Fostering Coexistence Vital website!!!! All things coyote coexistence: scientific studies, news of innovative solutions, pictures. All state of the art urban interface progressive programs!!! Nevada has got to catch up!!

Big Wildlife By providing campaign leadership, empowering grassroots, broadening the base of support for wildlife, and educating the public, Big Wildlife has become wildlife’s top public relations firm. We are the big voice for those who can not speak for themselves.

Big Wildlife seeks to protect and defend cougars, coyotes, bears, wolves, bobcats and other keystone predators.

Big Wildlife is part of the Earth Island Institute, a global network of conservation organizations. Go to:www.earthisland.org

Nevada Voters for Animals
Most people don't follow politics closely and are unaware of what their elected officals' positions are as they relate to animal issues.
This website is designed to provide Nevada registered voters with this information and what can be done to help the animals of Nevada.

Reno Gazette-Journal Article on Shortened Bobcat Season, June 27, 2009

Reno Gazette-Journal Editorial "Review Trap Regulations" Feb. 13, 2007.

Reno Gazette-Journal Article: "TRAPPED: Has Northern Nevada's population outgrown state trapping laws?" by Jeff DeLong jdelong@rgj.com
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL February 11, 2007

Reno Gazette-Journal Article: " Hikers, take note: You are sharing forest land with trappers" by KATIE WULFTANGE January 4, 2007.

Nevada Trapping Laws

Footloose Montana
"Every year, thousands of steel-jawed leghold traps, body-crushing Conibear traps and throat-choking snares are legally set on Montana’s public lands—all year long. Hundreds of pets, endangered species and other non-target animals are injured or killed in traps.

"Footloose Montana provides information about the threat of trapping to public safety on public lands, and its impact on our natural resources."

TrapFree Oregon
"Welcome to the TrapFree Oregon website, a source for information about the use of leg- and body- hold traps in our state and how you can help to stop it."

EndTrap: Vermonters for Banning Leghold Traps The group was founded in the late 1980s to protect Vermont pets, and all animals, from cruel and indiscriminate body-gripping (leghold, foothold and conibear) traps.

Humane Society of the United States "Celebrating Animals| Confronting Cruelty" See specifically their Fur Free Campaign Humane Society will supply a wealth of information, including photos of animals in traps. They maintain a database of unintended animal trappings.

Wild Earth Guardians WildEarth Guardians protects and restores wildlife, wild rivers, and wild places in the American West.

Utah Paws UtahPAWS was formed to help raise awareness of the danger trapping poses to domestic animals and to provide basic safety and rescue information to pet owners. Good illustrated instructions for opening traps.

Safe Haven Rescue Zoo Serves the needs of wildlife displaced by habitat loss due to urbanization. Provide wildlife rescue, veterinary care, direct contact for emergency care, referrals to other facilities, and community support and education.

... offer permanent placement for animals confiscated from the illegal pet trade and other critical situations in which they have been abused or neglected. Imlay, Nevada

National Trappers Association These guys are organized!! Pay special attention to the "Alert" link on the home page. This lists legislation they are opposing, and legislation they are supporting.

They have a video: "Destroying the Myth". Here's the blurb:

"For years, animal rights groups succeeded in demonizing trapping and traps as cruel and inhumane.

The National Trappers Association's new video, Destroying the Myth, explodes the heart of the anti-trapping strategy by exposing it as false.

This video speaks eloquently for itself to each and every viewer.

Destroying the Myth can be purchased in a variety of formats through our Online Catalog."

H.R. 1691:A bill that would ban trapping nationwide submitted to the
110th Congress by Congresswoman Nita Lowey [D-NY]

Maryland SENATE BILL 822 Submitted February, 2007. Not yet passed.

Synopsis:
Prohibiting a person from using, setting, placing, or maintaining a steel jaw leghold trap for the purpose of trapping an animal; and providing for the application of the Act.

Killing natural predators does little good- Reno Gazette Journal,February 9, 2007. Well-resarched article blasts myths that "predator control" is a necessity.

Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association - Fur-Free Campaign
File a case report to the Fur-Free Campaign if your pet is caught in a trap.

Letter to Editor of Carson Appeal by 13-year-old upset over trapping. Complete text and another letter...

Nevada Appeal Article March 19, 2007 Report on protest action brought about by 13-year-old's letter cited above. TrailSafe mentioned in the article.

People, Pets, and Traps: A Deadly Mix on Public Lands By K. Stachowski, 3-19-07 In New West Missoula: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains. Excellent, heartfelt article on pets caught in traps in Montana, and the dismal trapping laws in that state.
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The Fund for Animals. This organization opposes trapping and hunting in wildlife refuges. We thought "refuge" means an animal is protected. In fact, more than 300 of America's 500 National Wildlife Refuges allow hunting and trapping!

Share your opinion on any bill before Nevada State Legislature.
Scroll down right hand column to "Share Your Opinion" Opinion Poll.

Hikers, trappers urged to work on trail compromise. By Jeff DeLong
May 12, 2007. Results of our initial petition to the Wildlife Commission.

Animal Welfare Institute Issues: End the use of steel-jawed leghold traps on animals in the United States.
... Victims suffer excruciating pain and fear as they tear ligaments and break teeth in their struggle to free themselves from the bone crushing trap. AWI is campaigning vigorously against the steel trap in this country and abroad.

“Everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty.”
– Thomas Paine