Best Management Practices (BMPs)
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The Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) has developed a set of Best Management Practices for trapping.
- These guidelines:
- Identify the best equipment and practices that can be used to trap furbearers.
- Address the welfare of captured animals.
- Focus on the safest, most efficient, most humane, and most practical trapping techniques.
- To learn more, visit the AFWA Furbearer Management website.