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  • Trapping hurts Montana's economy

    Tom Gignoux|Updated Mar 20, 2014
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    Last year a 62-year-old Martin City woman was reduced to thrashing on the ground, covered with blood from her snapping, wounded dog while her 5- and 6-year old grandchildren looked on, crying in terror. The family was out for a walk. Their dogs were both caught in foothold traps hidden within feet of the road the children were running on. The grandmother was trying free her 100-pound dog. She did, finally, with a superhuman effort. The incident was reported to Fish, Wildlife and Parks in November 2013. They told her the set...