Why American Heritage is Important to Trappers

          The Left has a number of traditions and holidays that they expect Americans to follow and put on the same level of American holidays! Or consider Obama's unbelievable qoutes on Islam, and his continuing War on Christianity.  The Left and many on the right (John McCain), are on a "jihad" against American traditions and Christianity. They demonize working class whites, and sometimes especially the SJWs or Social Justice Warriors who some in the "animal rights" department hate fur and trappers.

     Trapping has a long history on our North American Continent. American Aborigines had traps especifically made to catch beavers that involved no steel and were made like a wooden cage.


     French explorers such as Samuel Champlain, had deals and treaties with the aborigines to trade for fur. Soon the fur trade grew but sadly  poor management depleted species such as the beaver, but with conservation efforts they were brought back! English settlers also began to trap and trade fur, and in fact many cities were founded thanks to the fur trade i.e. Chicago and St. Louis.

     Trapping for fur has long been an American tradition, interestingly I ran across an article by the Animal Welfare Institute that published this, "While the World Moves On, US Still Caught in Its Traps."  This is a qoute from the article's introduction, 

"Although more than 85 countries have banned or heavily restricted the use of steel-jaw leghold traps, the United States—one of the world’s largest fur producing and consuming nations—continues to defend these inhumane devices."

There are trappers in other countries, the article was full of anti trapper lies that are easily debunked. I do tough find the tile flattering. I think its great that the United States is famous for partaking in a sound management and conservation practice!

Trap On!

If you would like to read the Animal Welfare Institute's article go to this link.

https://awionline.org/awi-quarterly/2013-fall/while-world-moves-us-still-caught-its-traps

To contact and correct their biased anti Trapping point of view click here