19-02-2018 01:05 via vtdigger.org

David Kelley: Limit leghold trapping

A recent poll conducted by the Center for Rural Studies at the University of Vermont revealed that 75 percent of Vermonters oppose leghold and body gripping traps. The good sense of Vermonters is that we should make these traps illegal. If not statewide, they should at least be illegal on the public lands that are owned and shared by all of us. The few people who want to continue this “recreation” shouldn’t have the right to impose this behavior on our lands when the vast major
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