• Tom Kuglin
• Jan 27, 2022
•  https://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/trail-cameras-spark-debate-across-hunting-world/article_1af14adc-2778-553c-bd7a-d5f219d41938.html

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Tom Kuglin

Weighing the benefits of technology with the principles of fair chase has long been a difficult balance in hunting in Montana and across the West.

Photographing wildlife with remote trail cameras has grown in popularity over the last 20 years, whether as a noninvasive tool for research or a fun form of recreation. But in the hunting world, trail camera use has never been more hotly debated.

As technologies advance, the laws or regulations that made sense yesterday become obsolete tomorrow and states and organizations ask when they should tip the scales one way or another.Utah earlier this month joinedArizona and Nevada as Western states restricting the use of trail cameras, and the Boone and Crockett Club recently updated its trophy…