Senator Risser has proposed

LEGISLATION TO BAN ALL CRUEL TRAPPING AND HUNTING IN STATE PARKS

This in from Senator Risser’s office: 

From: Senator Fred A. Risser

RE: LRB 3198/1 Relating to Prohibiting Hunting in State Parks

Date: September 29, 2015

Deadline for Co-Sponsorship: October 20 at 12pm

This bill would prohibit hunting in state parks.

AND

To: All Legislative Senate, All Legislative Assembly

From: Senator Fred A. Risser

RE: LRB 3204/1 Relating to Prohibiting the use of Certain Trapping Devices in State Parks

Date: September 29, 2015

Deadline for Co-Sponsorship: October 20 at 12pm

This bill would prohibit the use of steel-jaw and body-gripping traps, as well as snares, in state parks.

These traps are not only inhumane for the suffering they cause wildlife, they pose a threat to visitors to state parks and their dogs.

Please find attached a copy of LRB 3204/1. To sign onto this bill, please…