TrapFree Oregon

06/12/2023

That was close

02/23/2023

02/21/2023

Mike Lockhart, a wildlife biologist specializing in eagles who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years, told Cowboy State Daily the impacts to eagle populations from Wyoming’s wind farms is being underreported and downplayed.

03/04/2021

Illinois is moving to protect their Bobcats from trapping!

03/04/2021

Illinois is currently moving legislation along to mitigate the slaughter of Bobcats in the state. Check out the latest meassage from Kitty Block of the HSCO to get the latest details! Let’s get this stopped in Oregon too!

03/02/2021

Hello friends! I have found another group we could establish relations with to outlaw trapping. This group is called Project Coyote and is located in southern CA near Joshua Tree. The more people we can reach, the more we can do!

03/01/2021

Stay with us followers, we have some plans to try to get other states that allow trapping to form a coalition. Like all coalitions it will start small. If you can add any wildlife protection groups here, that would be great.
Some are:
Preserve American Wildlife
End the War on Wildlife

05/10/2019

Is anyone out there interested in picking up this cause once again? It would mean work, real work. Is anyone interested in donating money to help finance the work that needs to be done?
We've found that a lot of people think its a great idea but have no time or money to put toward it. If that's really still the case, then we can't even get started.
Please respond if you would be willing to donate- money and/or time.
We'll get back to you through messaging, not on the public page.
Chris Baker
TrapFree Oregon

09/08/2017

After the horrendous fires have gone, wouldn't it be awesome if all of our wildlife had a year off from hunting, fishing and trapping? The population would likely be so much more robust next year. If you are an outdoorsman (or woman!) you could help to make this change.

02/14/2017

A comment from a trapper in response to an article in The Buffalo News, December 2015:

"My father is a trapper and I've spent many years on the trapline with him and his friends. I would be lying if I gave you the old "trappers line" of not ever catching cats or dogs in the traps; we do. We have also caught numerous hawks and owls, and though we release them, we now know that after a bird of prey is in a trap, the tendons in their legs are so damaged that they can no longer grip prey, and if they don't die from infection first, they will die of starvation. We learned this after taking a few injured owls to local wildlife rehabilitators and veterinarians. It is a sad reality. Most trappers won't take an injured bird of prey to a Wildlife Rehabilitator or veterinarian because these birds are protected by federal laws. We can be fined, and and it makes trappers look bad. We let them go, and hope for the best.

As far as other non-target animals, we catch rabbits, squirrels, and opossums all the time. These smaller animals are so badly injured that we humanely dispatch them, but they don't go to waste because we use them as bait for the coyotes and foxes. Most trappers won't admit how many non-target animals they catch because it makes our sport and us look bad. The padded traps do a lot of damage to the feet of the fox, raccoons, and coyotes we catch. They have to grip very hard in order to hold the animal. The animals struggle and pull, then finally lay down in exhaustion and shock. There is always blood and damage to the foot. Sometimes, we find just a foot in the trap , this is called wring-off, which happens when the animal struggled and twisted so much, it twisted its foot right off. Frankly, the older I get and the more I learn, the less and less I want to trap and see trapping done. It won't bother me one bit to see a local ban on trapping on the public lands on Grand Island."

08/11/2015

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