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Originally Posted by uke hunter

Great job Ryan!! Keep up the amazing work you are doing to promote trapping on behalf of all trappers in the industry. As said by others, I admire that fact that you are actually PUBLICALLY standing up for trappers and our industry. Unfortunately, there are those that try to diminish what you are doing by stating that you didn't involve the right "stakeholders". However, if these stakeholders actually got off their asses and did their job to publically promote our industry instead of having discussions behind closed doors then it would fall less upon you to do it for them. Even here in Alberta I have yet to see the ATA ever publically promote trapping with any real effort. It's simple, the squeaky wheel gets the grease. It's time we started squeaking more and publically put the real truth out there regarding trapping instead of speaking in hushed tones, behind the scenes trying to defend ourselves from the falsities that PETA and others are publically stating. Our associations would rather remain silent than publically confront the lack of correct information provided to the public as they don't want to play that game. Well, as long as the false information keeps getting to the public, the popular vote will eventually win and we know where that will lead our industry to! Forget the naysayers Ryan, keep doing what you're doing on behalf of us proud trappers! Way to go!

Definitely!!!