While commercial trapping was once a noble trade that opened the San Francisco Bay Area to international commerce even before the 1848 Gold Rush, its heyday has long since passed.
Milton Brownell, right — an 80-year-old lifelong fur trapper from Fall River, Calif., who was at a fur sale in Klamath Falls, Ore. — foresees the end of an industry.
California fur trapper Tim Wion has a handful of old traps that he hopes to sell to out-of-state trappers at a fur sale in Klamath Falls, Ore. “My association is not fighting back because trapping is a dead horse in California,” Aiton said, “and there isn’t a dad gum thing we can do about it.”A San Francisco ban on fur sales took effect in January, while two bills in the state Legislature seek to ban trapping for commercial purposes and outlaw the sale of fur products statewide. At the same time, a coalition of animal rights activists called Direct Action Everywhere is stepping up demonstrations at fashion shows and department stores.
It’s that history, in part, that informs the second bill, which was introduced this year by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman . The proposal would ban all sales of fur and fur products including, but not limited to, “handbags, shoes, slippers, hats, earmuffs, scarves, shawls, gloves, jewelry, and keychains … made in whole or in part of fur."
Meanwhile in Klamath Falls, a city of 42,000 people nestled on the eastern slope of Oregon’s Cascade Mountains, the plight of California fur trappers seemed a world away. “Animal rights activists are terrorist groups, mostly led by lesbians, who destroy property and burn down animal research facilities for their cause,” Catrina said. “And progressives, in their march toward communism, are trying to ban trapping. They’ll get rid of hunting too after they take over the government of the United States.”“They’ve never seen the terrible things that happen in nature.
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