Hello everyone,
If you will can you send a quick statement to your wildlife commissioner telling them how you feel about the March water trapping extension? It’s coming up Friday. We’re asking for season to be extended through March statewide for water trapping only. KDFWR is in support of this.
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Item: Amend 301 KAR 2:251 Hunting and trapping seasons and limits for furbearers
o Allow furbearers to be trapped through March using water sets as defined in regulation.
Justification: Beavers are abundant throughout Kentucky to the extent that damage issues are becoming a significant challenge to landowners and municipalities statewide. Concerns are related to flooding of roadways, timber, and crops. Beaver dams and bank dens cause roads to flood and collapse, resulting in road closures. The Department also receives concerns of pond spillway damming, destruction of trees (including orchards and new plantings), damage in/around city water reservoirs, flooding of water treatment plants, and flooding of golf courses. Managing moist soil units is a challenge both on public wildlife management areas and private land. The department receives numerous reports of beaver damage in March, when young beavers begin to disperse and establish their own territories.
The Wildlife Division proposes extending the trapping season for traps set as water sets through the end of March. While beaver is a main focus, issues with muskrat arise, and allowing these other furbearer species to be trapped along with beaver will allow incidental catches to be legally harvested and sold, rather than discarded and wasted.
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If nothing else just a short statement saying you understand the issue and are in favor of it for better wildlife management of water species of which many are over abundant. I see there’s a slight increase in all license sales proposed across the board of 7.1%. There’s a lot of business this Friday. We’re on page 25. This is where individual members can help back us after making several trips and phone calls getting this up for discussion. Thank you.
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Just sent Mr. Floyd an email - 1st District
Done in 6th district
Thanks guys.
Email sent to Mr. Greg Cecil 4th district. Hope it helps.
Thank you sir. We have some new commissioners and I think several are not familiar at all with trapping. At least they’ll know we’re out here.
I sent one yesterday to Mr. Robertson in the 9 th District
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That makes two of us in the ninth.
Done district 9
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Done, 3rd district
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Done in 2nd
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Sent from the 4th District
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Done in district 7
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That makes most all the commissioners get a heads up on it then. I think in the past things have been better when they have heard from us. I expect one person to oppose it but we have KDFWR biologists support on it.
Matt Rhodes just called me back and said he is in favor of the extension and the other commissioners are in favor of it also. He says that it should move forward to the vote in June.
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It moved forward with no opposition voiced.
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Good to hear