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California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« on: February 09, 2026, 05:13:58 AM »
This means Washington will propose a similar bill next year. We need a plan to defeat it now. https://www.montanaoutdoor.com/2026/02/california-bans-fur-trapping-but-not-fur-sales/ .

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2026, 06:55:34 AM »
These people are insufferable. They just destroy anyone else’s way of life they can’t imagine themselves living. We won’t be far behind at this rate.

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2026, 07:56:13 AM »
I believe this ban happened about 6 or 7 years ago

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2026, 11:26:56 AM »
I believe this ban happened about 6 or 7 years ago

Footholds were banned in '99, actually 3 years after they were banned in Washington. You have been able to use livetraps but most species have been banned from being trapped so it is just for predator control purposes mostly. For example, bobcats haven't been able to be trapped since 2015 because they created the Bobcat Protection Act  :chuckle:
If you shoot the first one you will never get that true trophy.

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2026, 04:25:43 PM »
This Bill was passed and signed into law in 2019. It has been illegal to commercially or recreationally harvest fur in California since Jan. 1 2020.
Bruce Vandervort

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2026, 08:16:01 PM »
I’m sure we are right behind

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2026, 12:29:55 AM »
So… who is checking my back forty
Or my remote 100
Keep passing laws you can’t enforce
One shot. One kill!

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2026, 06:14:37 PM »
I wonder what the state spends in conflict and nuicance control in commifornia?

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Re: California Bans ‘Recreational’ Trapping
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2026, 06:46:47 PM »
It’s all paid for by taxpayers, instead of private enterprise (fur trappers), but in Washington anyway it is undocumented and kept quiet. Look at the cougar black ops killing cougars instead of getting rid of insane bs quotas, and letting tag buying hunters control cougar numbers. The number I heard being paid for killing a nuisance cougar to one of these black ops hound hunters is $4500. Collect your pay and throw the cougar in the dump. No body cares.
G Brady told me one time Washington is going the way of Europe. In Holland they trap nuisance muskrats that are tunneling in the banks of the dikes, pile them up and burn them. Fur trappers used to manage the muskrat numbers there.
Instead of using and managing a renewable resource, kill it, oft times when the animal has kits in the den, throw them in the dump, and keep quiet, so your check keeps coming in.

 


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