Recently the game commission (in a narrow split decision) voted to not allow a petition for banning beaver trapping on public lands in Oregon. Now the commissioners who voted to follow ODFW staff recommendations to deny the petition are being personally harassed by the antis.

Check out these postcards they received:

Oregon has gotten worse then Seattle. Feel for you..

On the bright side Coke sales are up....lol

Kates a little slow but eventually she catches up to her idols in WA andCA

There was a recent op-ed in the Oregon Statesman Journal by the Center for Biological Diversity accusing these commissioners of not following science. Boy howdy, talk about the pot calling the kettle black! With absolutely no empirical data that trapping negatively affects the beaver population in key coho salmon spawning areas ....they claim it to be so. Little to no beaver trapping is taking place in later years in these areas.

If there are no beaver there it is because of no suitable habitat. They do not seem to understand that mature douglas fir forest in the riparian zones does not support a beaver population. Back in the 40's and 50's when streams were logged over we had great numbers of beavers in these areas.
Forestry practices act of 1971 changed the logging practices.

I always hope the people who harass sportsmen, Get Bit by a rabid wild animal or Get a bad case of Squirrel,bat and coon infestation in their home.

Vindictive? Maybe

I put my money on the pickle-heads.

They must have seen how other people their way by throwing around the word science.

At the hearings they had testimony from 'scientists' who favor the notion of "hands-off" wildlife management. These 'scientists' do not believe any human manipulation of wildlife should ever occur. But seem to be clueless about why beaver numbers are low in our coast range nowadays.

Has to be those bad trappers!

How does beaver damming streams help the salmon spawning ? I thought dams were detrimental to spawning fish ?

Considering your opposition to the one guy willing to take the fight to the progressive left all I can say is tough shiite.

Warrior, why on earth would you allow a differing political stance with an individual spawn an attitude that negatively affects all sportsmen? I can vouch that beaverpeeler has been at the forefront of defending trappers rights during the many battles that have been waged in this state. We still have foot traps, we still have a 48 hour check law, and these things can be attributed to those people that have fought for or trapping privileges over the years. I was a Trump supporter but to be honest, he had zero power to influence state regulations concerning wildlife management.

Why should I or any other come to his aid when he opposes those who would put a stop to this nonsense.

As far as I'm concerned the leftists can deal with their own mess. There's going to be a ton of gun owners and outdoorsfolk crying in their beer over the next four years and many will have voted for it.

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Why are you concerned about leaving a single individual out to dry when it affects every trapper in this wretched state???

Perhaps what Warrior is saying is that you get what you vote for. And maybe he sees no reason to spend time, effort, and money on anyone who repeatedly votes for the people who keep trying to kill trapping.I

Mike

I learned how thats dealt with back in '87 after Drill Sergeant Glover dropped the whole platoon a few times. Those sorts of problems get cleared up quick like.

So, am I a problem that needs to be dealt with since I don't subscribe to the official Trapperman pro-Trump stance? Got news for you bucko...you don't necessarily need to be a liberal, leftist or progressive to have no use for that despicable human being.

Don’t complain about losing trapping rights if you’re voting for the people trying to take them away. It’s like turning the heat down when you’re cold..It just don’t make a lick of sense.

The land of fruits and nuts has been expanding up the west coast for years. Nothing that happens there surprises me. There's still hope,,,, the san andreas fault.