Furbearer Conservation

September 9, 2019

Conservation, Headlines, Hunting & Trapping, Legislation, National, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Reference Article, Science & Biology, Wildlife Management, Hunting Culture

Conservation Researchers: hunting bans imperil biodiversity

Furbearer Conservation

September 9, 2019

Conservation, Headlines, Hunting & Trapping, Legislation, National, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Reference Article, Science & Biology, Wildlife Management, Hunting Culture

New writings published in the Science Journal urge governments and policymakers to take account of these findings in the face of high-profile emotionally-driven campaigns that call for bans on the regulated hunting of abundant species.

Furbearer Conservation

September 5, 2019

A World Without Trapping, Cultural Heritage, Headlines, Hunting & Trapping, Legislation, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Wildlife Management

California becomes first state to outright ban regulated trapping

Furbearer Conservation

September 5, 2019

A World Without Trapping, Cultural Heritage, Headlines, Hunting & Trapping, Legislation, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Wildlife Management

With the official removal of regulated trapping from California’s landscape, concern over wanton waste of wildlife is now a full reality; with viable usage of a fur-bearing animal’s remains no longer permitted.

Jeff Traynor, A.C.E.

June 27, 2019

Discussion, Hunting, Legislation, New England, New Hampshire, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Predator Management, Public Relations, Wildlife Control, Wildlife Management, Suburbanization, Featured Article, Hunting & Trapping

War on coyote management wages on in New England politics

Jeff Traynor, A.C.E.

June 27, 2019

Discussion, Hunting, Legislation, New England, New Hampshire, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Predator Management, Public Relations, Wildlife Control, Wildlife Management, Suburbanization, Featured Article, Hunting & Trapping

The knee-jerk cliché “they were here first” argument may very well be a valid one, but it detracts from the core issue; how do we continue to live among what has become, for lack of a better term, an evolutionary unprecedented apex predator?

William Carney

June 19, 2019

Discussion, Guest Writer, Hunting, Legislation, New Hampshire, Opinion / Editorial, Public Relations, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Rough Cuts, New England

Letter: How HSUS spends its money

William Carney

June 19, 2019

Discussion, Guest Writer, Hunting, Legislation, New Hampshire, Opinion / Editorial, Public Relations, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Rough Cuts, New England

The following letter was recently written by long-time sportsman’s advocate and conservationist William Carney. The following letter appeared in the April 16th editorial/opinion section of the Concord Monitor - a New Hampshire-based newspaper. Bill’s letter is reposted here, with his permission, in its full and uncut entirety. Readers of the Furbearer Conservation blog are encouraged to draw their own conclusions from the content of this letter.

Furbearer Conservation

June 8, 2019

Hunting, Legislation, New Hampshire, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Predator Management, Wildlife Management, Hunting & Trapping, New England

Hunting critics petition NH Fish and Game with new Coyote regulations

Furbearer Conservation

June 8, 2019

Hunting, Legislation, New Hampshire, Politics & Wildlife Mgmt, Predator Management, Wildlife Management, Hunting & Trapping, New England

An animal rights group in New Hampshire has petitioned the state’s Fish and Game Department over regulations for the hunting of coyotes in the state. The petition comes just a month and a half after the state’s legislators rejected a House Bill seeking to restrict coyote hunting in the state.