A two year old bill that banned trapping in roadside ditches in Nebraska has now been overturned.
Concerns over trapping non-target animals motivated the original bill’s passing, but problems with flooding and land damage have proven the need for trapping to resume in these areas. Individual counties still have the right to ban roadside trapping within their jurisdictional areas.
On a related note, Nebraska’s KOTA News site posted the story on their site with an absolutely outrageous opening line:
YOU HAD BETTER WATCH YOUR STEP WHILE TAKING A WALK IN THE COUNTRYSIDE FROM NOW ON.
TODAY STATE LAWMAKERS GAVE FINAL APPROVAL TO A BILL THAT WILL ALLOW TRAPPERS TO CATCH VARMINTS IN NEBRASKA’S ROADSIDE DITCHES.
The ingnorance in this statement is absolutely unbelievable, and leads an unknowing public to believe that it is now dangerous to ‘walk in the countryside’ because trapping is legal here.
Trapping poses no public safety hazard, despite what KOTA would have you believe.
Also, the majority of the active public does not spend their free time walking around roadside ditches. Instead, they frequent hiking trails and more peaceful, pleasant locations, which trappers tend to avoid.
KOTA’s statement is ignorant and malicious and shows absolutely no journalistic integrity.
Kudos to Senator Mark Christensen for introducing and fighting for the new bill, and shame on KOTA for some of the worst reporting I’ve seen in some time.
i definitly agree that this statement was a highly ignorant statement for several reasons for example it would make the public think that we are trying to trap them with bear traps and they would possibly step into one of these large cruel bear traps it would be totaly their own fault and not the trapper this so called article tells me that this person is a very ignorant disrespectful i feel bad for this person but the only part i have is to pray for him that god will show his ignorance to him so he can correct himself at some point and time ps. his article undoubtably gave us trappers a bad name also the main reason i trap in roadside ditchs is because most fur bearing animals stay away from humans as at all possibilitys and also this is not public land . ht ly ntnorance to eu