Montanans for Trap Free Public Lands is out pounding the street to get signatures for its ballot initiative to ban trapping on public lands. They have gathered 6000+ signatures and they need 25,000 by June to get it on the ballot.
Initiative instigators.
Martin Kidston – Helena Independent Record
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If I lived in montana I would sign the petition. Steel traps & snares are 14th century barbarism!
I am not hearing good things on this one, I don’t think it is going to make the ballot…