Coyote Trapping

[Udink]

Does anyone here know of any laws or regulations pertaining to trapping coyotes in Utah? I read the furbearer guidebook on the DWR's website, and all it mentioned about coyotes is that they're not a protected species and can be hunted without a license year-round. I can't find any mention of whether (or where) it's legal to set traps.

The reason I ask is that I was on an ATV ride today, and I had my dog with me running alongside. I kept seeing what I later figured out were coyote traps buried under the dirt just a few feet from the road, and my dog could have easily gotten caught up in any one of them. It just didn't seem right for somebody to leave something potentially dangerous buried right next to the road.

[Deathcricket]

Friggin retards. You talking about the clamp jaw dealies? Who cares if it's legal? If they are in an area where a domestic pet can step on them or a human, get rid of them. I would have taken them to the pawn shop and profited a little even. But that's just me.

[Gutpiler_Utahn]

Trapping is legal year round on yotes, but I believe there are laws about where they can and cannot be.

[denaliguide]

thats why its best to keep your pets on a leash. also in some states (i dont know about utah) its illegal to mess with someones legally set traps.

[Win]

We ran into a fellow last Spring who was telling me about his dog getting caught in a trap. The trap was set right along a trail in the Kanab area.
He freed the dog and threw the trap into the woods. He reported it to the authorities and a was later charged with tampering with a legally set trap!

Win

[Scott P]

I can't find any mention of whether (or where) it's legal to set traps.

Not only is it legal, but tax money pays people to do it on public lands. The Utah Association of Counties supports such measures and has power with the Utah lawmakers. In several counties in Utah a bounty is still paid for people who trap coyotes (paid for by taxpayers). I believe it's $20 a head in several of them, but I don't know if that's the dollar amount for every county. If you look at those ones hung on the fences likely much of the times their ears are missing. This is because they were turned in for bounties.

[MY T PIMP]

My dad's hounds got into coyote poison and it killed the whole lot of them.

[Rev. Coyote]

I destroy traps whenever I find them. Knock off a bunch of them out near Horsethief Point once. Trapping is a coward's craft.

[JP]

I destroy traps whenever I find them. Knock off a bunch of them out near Horsethief Point once. Trapping is a coward's craft.

Look at that, they baited ya right in

[Rev. Coyote]

I destroy traps whenever I find them. Knock off a bunch of them out near Horsethief Point once. Trapping is a coward's craft.

Look at that, they baited ya right in

Indeed!

Trappers are not always cowards, though (I should clarify). They can also be piss-poor shots or guys who never get sober enough to operate a firearm.

[JP]

Indeed!

I'm still laughing on how you got baited right in

[accadacca]

I destroy traps whenever I find them. Knock off a bunch of them out near Horsethief Point once. Trapping is a coward's craft.

I bet you dropped some roofing nails too.

[Rev. Coyote]

I destroy traps whenever I find them. Knock off a bunch of them out near Horsethief Point once. Trapping is a coward's craft.

I bet you dropped some roofing nails too.

Not in that instance.

[ilanimaka]

So because you think trapping is evil, nobody should be allowed to do it...

*cough* *cough* fascist *cough* *cough*

[JP]

Oh boy

[Mtnman1830]

I have trapped muskrats before and had some inadvertant catches. It is my opinion, however, that blasting the animals with a high power rifle is much more fun and sportsmanlike.

[Rev. Coyote]

So because you think trapping is evil, nobody should be allowed to do it...

*cough* *cough* fascist *cough* *cough*

This is America. Knock yourself out if you want to hunt like a coward. But if I find your traps, I'll destroy them. Pro forma.

*cough* *hack* ASSWIPE *snork* *haruff*

[ilanimaka]

Oh, I don't trap. But it's legal so I support the rights of those who do. There's the difference. I'm accepting of what others do, whereas you seem to lean more towards vandalism.

Great example, "Reverend..."

[Rev. Coyote]

Oh, I don't trap. But it's legal so I support the rights of those who do. There's the difference. I'm accepting of what others do, whereas you seem to lean more towards vandalism.

The legality of a thing does not make it right. Trapping is a cruel, torturous way to kill an animal, as opposed to a good clean shot from a .308. I don't oppose hunting (for food), but trapping is just plain wrong, and (as others pointed out on this thread) endangers domestic pets and humans.

You can get high and mighty all you want about vandalism, if that's what you want to call it. I'd call it doing the right thing.

[JP]

endangers domestic pets and humans.

This coming from a "Roofer"