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In the total number of licenses held, the number of active recreational trappers, and revenues from trapping licenses, we are talking about a fraction of 1% of Vermont’s population.
Trappers were given the opportunity to put their assertions about trapper responsibility into action, but they rejected even these reasonable measures.
The governor, Fish & Wildlife and legislators need to listen and stop dismissing the legitimate viewpoints of the majority of Vermonters about trapping, and act to ban recreational and fur trapping.