What You Can Do

The National Park Service (NPS) has the discretion to prohibit the use of these cruel traps in our National Parks. These devices pose a serious hazard to the very animals that our National Parks are intended to protect, including threatened and endangered species, raptors, and migratory birds, not to mention the countless dogs and cats abandoned on our public lands every year by irresponsible individuals who no longer wish to care for them.

Please send a polite letter to Gale Norton, the secretary of the interior, asking her to see to it personally that NPS bans the use of leghold traps, snares, cable restraints, and body-gripping traps on NPS lands once and for all:

The Honorable Gale Norton
Secretary of the Interior
Department of the Interior
1849 C St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20240
202-208-6956 (fax)
exsec@ios.doi.gov