To the Editor,
When I first witnessed images of terrified bobcats, foxes, and other wildlife with metal jaws crushing their limbs while humans stood smugly smiling over them I didn’t know what I was looking at. I thought that it was illegal activity or maybe something from another country. I soon found out that not only was this cruel activity - trapping - legal but it’s endorsed by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. Tradition runs deep in Vermont and some of those traditions run contrary to modern science and ethics.