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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: Humptulips on August 13, 2015, 12:51:57 PM

Title: California
Post by: Humptulips on August 13, 2015, 12:51:57 PM: I suppose you have all heard about California banning bobcat trapping. Trappers lost the battle on that a year and a half ago with the passage of "The bobcat protection act". Their Fish & Wildlife Commission had an option to keep it open but it seems things were stacked against them wildlife management and good science be damned.
Now this article
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Wildlife-advocates-expand-target-after-bobcat-ban-6440726.php
It shows what happens when the animal rights people get a little encouragement from a win.
Their trappers association was weak and not prepared. Lesson learned, we have to stay on top of things or it could happen here.
Title: Re: California
Post by: bobcat on August 13, 2015, 01:07:38 PM: So am I understanding correctly that bobcat trapping is not actually banned in the entire state of California, but only in certain areas?

From the article:

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The Bobcat Protection Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2013, prevented trapping around wildlife refuges, national and state parks and wildlife areas in the state.
Title: Re: California
Post by: Bigshooter on August 13, 2015, 01:27:11 PM: Quote from: bobcat on August 13, 2015, 01:07:38 PM
So am I understanding correctly that bobcat trapping is not actually banned in the entire state of California, but only in certain areas?

From the article:

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The Bobcat Protection Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2013, prevented trapping around wildlife refuges, national and state parks and wildlife areas in the state.

Sounds like it is completely banned now.
Title: Re: California
Post by: Blacktail Sniper on August 13, 2015, 01:43:39 PM: :yeah: in the very next paragraph:

"The Bobcat Protection Act, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law in 2013, prevented trapping around wildlife refuges, national and state parks and wildlife areas in the state.

But wildlife advocates said it didn’t go far enough and lobbied the Fish and Game Commission to do more. Their efforts paid off with the vote last week to ban bobcat trapping throughout California."
Title: Re: California
Post by: bobcat on August 13, 2015, 01:52:24 PM: Oh okay. Thanks. I was having a hard time reading that on my phone. What a bunch of dummies down there.
Title: Re: California
Post by: headshot5 on August 13, 2015, 02:06:02 PM: That sucks.
Title: Re: California
Post by: Humptulips on August 13, 2015, 02:46:21 PM: The F&W Commission voted to ban bobcat trapping statewide on the 5th of August. Estimated bobcat population in California is 70,000. They had a statewide allowable take on bobcats of 14,400.
The F&W Commission had two options close the season or create buffer zones around areas already closed to bobcat trapping and raise the license to trap bobcats to $1137 plus $35 for each bobcat. That would have essentially killed bobcat trapping in the state anyway so this was really lost when the Bobcat Protection Act passed the State Assembly.
Governor Brown appointed two new Commissioners to the five person Commission just before the meeting. This was their first meeting and the both voted to ban trapping. It passed by 3 to 2.
I was just reading where the California Assembly has two animal rights advocates in powerful and key positions in their assembly so expect more of this kind of thing.
Title: Re: California
Post by: jasnt on August 14, 2015, 06:15:44 PM: "I was just reading where the California Assembly has two animal rights advocates in powerful and key positions in their assembly so expect more of this kind of thing."
Sadly So does Washington
Title: Re: California
Post by: Humptulips on August 14, 2015, 09:19:52 PM: We have some friends in the Legislature also.
Title: Re: California
Post by: bugs n bones on August 14, 2015, 09:27:18 PM: Just goes to show once the activists and the bad media take hold now days it's hard to recover from it.
Title: Re: California
Post by: bugs n bones on August 14, 2015, 09:31:43 PM: I bet Mercer is just sick about this :bash:this country has really gone to *censored* on so many levels
Title: Re: California
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on August 14, 2015, 09:39:48 PM: Need to blockade I-5 in southern Oregon before its way to late............ They are coming up here and most all of them support these stupid idocrocies......... :bash: :bash: :bash:
Title: Re: California
Post by: jasnt on August 14, 2015, 10:49:55 PM: Quote from: bugs n bones on August 14, 2015, 09:31:43 PM
I bet Mercer is just sick about this :bash:this country has really gone to *censored* on so many levels
reading your post this video came to mind
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs
Title: Re: California
Post by: Bigshooter on August 15, 2015, 07:16:33 AM: Quote from: jasnt on August 14, 2015, 10:49:55 PM
Quote from: bugs n bones on August 14, 2015, 09:31:43 PM
I bet Mercer is just sick about this :bash:this country has really gone to *censored* on so many levels
reading your post this video came to mind
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMqcLUqYqrs

Is that from a movie? If so what is it called?
Title: Re: California
Post by: bugs n bones on August 15, 2015, 07:44:34 AM: It was just an interview
Title: Re: California
Post by: Bigshooter on August 15, 2015, 08:28:18 AM: Quote from: bugs n bones on August 15, 2015, 07:44:34 AM
It was just an interview

I did a search its not a real interview. It is from the first season of The Newsroom on HBO.