Comments on: Letter from a Cree Trapper: Nature Is Our Refuge from Covid-19

By: Nairu

Nairu — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:45:44 +0000

I’m still against trapping because of the unecessary stress it causes to the animal, hunting is much better and humane.

By: Nairu

Nairu — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:42:35 +0000

In reply to Joseph G.. Still the animal is vulnerable to being killed by another animal and is really stressed when in the trap. Hunting them is more humane than making the animal suffer unnecessarilly.

By: Joseph G.

Joseph G. — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:52:01 +0000

It appears to me that trapping can be an honorable, admirable way of life. When you take a wild animal to feed and clothe your family, you are partaking in a lifestyle that existed before the dawn of time. There is no right or wrong in it, when abiding laws and using modern traps. Also, there are good things to say about collecting pelts to sell and trade to other families that can’t do for themselves. Wild animals need (or can be) managed, and your family needs supplies that only money can buy. Unfortunately, greed nearly wiped out American wildlife, and now it’s gotten so commercialized. It’s beyond the pale. We’ve taken something that used to be wholesome and natural, and turned it into something most decidedly unnatural. I admire someone who lives in a place where you can still harvest, process and survive on wild caught fur and not look out of place, but those places have largely disappeared in our country. Fur is grown indoors now, and sold (often overseas) to people who don’t need it. I don’t believe it’s as ecologically friendly as they say, and the economic gains seem rather self-serving. I mean, somebody makes their living manufacturing cages and medicine to keep the animals productive, but that might not be the best thing in the world. Most of the fur “industry” just isn’t worth defending. However, the old world lifestyle can still be righteous. This website likes to lump it all together, I don’t see it that way. Hopefully someday, when the farms go under (or converted into something more beneficial) there should still be a market for wild fur, assuming it’s kept respectable, sold for warmth, and preferably kept local and traditional.

By: Mark Laub

Mark Laub — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:37:33 +0000

Greed and the need to dominate and control not only other people’s, but also the Earth, has in itself been a pandemic since early human mankind. The Earth can and will only give so much. Extinction of strains of Salmon, Steelhead, the American Bison, plus many, many more species just to satisfy man’s need for wealth and comfort will ultimately be the end of life as we know it. Amen.

By: KaD

KaD — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 01:27:42 +0000

The coronavirus outbreak is an excuse for governments to wield power and control. FAR fewer people are dying from this than from the flu, and the people that do were on their last legs with serious medical conditions anyways.

I have to agree with this guy, we MUST return to the land, and be as local as possible to survive.

By: Calvin Kania

Calvin Kania — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:46:45 +0000

Great story Robert! I like you, have been an outdoors men and connected to the land and wildlife my entire life. I’ve heard many theories and conspiracy theories on how Covid 19 began. We have seen in our lifetime the decimation of wildlife populations succumb to diseases due to over population from lack of habitat and food. Mother Nature as we all know how powerful she can be, decided we humans have not been looking after the good Mother Earth they way we should be. She has decided to take action and we are now experiencing her judgement. I believe it’s as simple as that.

By: Peter Pemberton

Peter Pemberton — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:18:52 +0000

As a Federal government employee CFIA and abud outdoorsman and trapper I have to endure being around hundreds of pla t workers on a daily basis providing inspection services to insure the protein that the whole country and otherpartsofrhe world are safe, don’t getme wronh I would sooner be in the great outdoors