Sentence examples for trappers from inspiring English sources

"It seems like so many of these rules or changes or regulations or proposals are out to protect the trappers," said York, who is the head of Trap-Free Montana Public Lands.

Wildlife officials received complaints that information was being used to harass and threaten hunters and trappers, Aasheim said.

Other hunters and trappers complained that they don't want information about their secret spots to be available to the public, he said.

"There was not a lot, but some hunters and trappers expressed a concern that it potentially – well, it made them uncomfortable," Aasheim said.

Anti-trapping advocates say it is inhumane and results in the inadvertent capture of pets and other species, while trappers say it is just another way to manage and control the population of an animal.

The head of that group, KC York, said she has no interest in looking up the names of trappers, and she does not condone harassment.

This proposal would expand that confidentiality to trappers and include all game animals, furbearers or other species under the department's management.

The confidential information would include just those who have taken an animal, not all licensed hunters and trappers, Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said.

Wildlife officials are proposing to keep confidential the names of hunters and trappers who kill any wildlife in Montana, saying that information that can be obtained under the state's right-to-know laws is being used to threaten and harass.

The state agency tabulates information such as the name and address of the hunter or trapper and the location of the kill, which is now public information except in the case of bears, mountain lions and wolves.

The last major atrocity was triggered by a fight about an indigenous woman that lead to a white dingo trapper being murdered.