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Originally Posted by lilsundance
I'm not going to post the name but I know a trapper that has 3 cabins on his line. Every November there are anywhere from 7 to 15 people in those cabins on weekends doing nothing but hunting. One of those cabins have fallen into disrepair and can't be used now. So he is building another cabin about 3 miles from the newest cabin. Why there, its because its at the end of a lease road behind a locked gate which he has a key for. He can drive right to the new cabin and not have to worry about unloading a quad and going across the muskeg to the main cabin. Is the line trapped, yes he has a junior partner who does all the trapping. For the owner of this line its for recreation, Hunting and comfort. Let someone else do the work of trapping it. This is what a lot of people are so upset about and why they call the line a recreational line.
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This IS what is happening in a great many cases to greater or lessor degrees. One even involves helicopter transportation and another in a land use zone ferries in hunters because they can't use their own ATV's. It's only natural as trapping turns more and more towards recreation the public is going to demand change.
A Mayor and buddies controlling five traplines? Sound quite equitable to me!
The spin continues but like the crown land grazing leases the abuses are just to great to remain favoring a few at the expense of many.