From Murray Martin, in response to the wolf skull letters:

Whitehorse Star: January 25, 2008
Judge not that ye be judged

Last Monday, a letter to the editor from a local animal activist was published with regards to a person having a wolf skull placed in his mailbox.

The person established, without proof in his letter, that the act was made by a trapper.

This was followed by a letter to the editor on Wednesday from another Whitehorse resident who condemned the “trapper” for committing such an act.

Neither letter actually produced evidence that the wolf skull was placed there by a trapper.

The other side of the coin could say that the people involved actually committed this act to further the points of anti-trapping society.

We would hope that no one would stoop that low to force (without facts) their opinions on others.

This would not be the first time this has happened.

I would point out that a number of years ago, a film was produced by an anti-activist group in Canada that showed animals in distress as well as seriously hurt that were caught on a trapper’s trapline.

An investigation was made of those making the film. It was found that the people responsible for the film actually placed the animals in the traps themselves to further their attack on legal trappers.

Unfortunately, the letter writers had children’s remarks (?) made in the letter to the editor. It would be far better if the children received the honest facts of both sides of trapping.

The first step would be to purchase the most factual sides of the anti-movement and the side of the professional trapper confined in the more than 1,500 pages of the scientific book Wild Furbearer Management Conservation in North America.

Possibly the greatest damage being done is involving children in adults’ opinions not based on open thinking based on facts.

Such actions, on either side, can only wrongly affect a child’s future in growing up with a clear, responsible, thinking mind as well as attitude.

The moral in this story is: “Judge not that ye be judged.”

Murray Martin
Whitehorse

P.S. I am not involved in trapping or an anti-movement.