Until I get letters and phone calls from the rabid anti-trapping crowd, and then I begin to wonder. The utterings lately are vile and intemperate, a touch deranged even, with the phone calls the worst. Letters to the editor are downright uncivil. I believe this is getting a little out of hand. Get a perspective, people.
Trapping is a legally licensed endeavor with a long and honorable tradition.
Albany wouldn't be here without trapping. Granted, it isn't mainstream anymore, and it's not television. Your hands really do get dirty. But even those who are adamantly opposed to it should be able to see that within the framework of trapping, there are right ways and wrong ways to do business, ethical and unethical behavior, humane and inhumane ways to capture and kill the furbearer. Now, of course there are those who feel that trapping itself is unethical.