Ballot initiative process used to go after trapping on public land
Footloose Montana, an anti-trapping group headquartered in Missoula, plans to file a ballot initiative today that would seek to outlaw trapping on public land in Montana. Anja Heister, executive director of Footloose Montana, said the move comes in response to the 2007 death of Cupcake, a boarder collie mix that was caught in a Conibear trap along Rock Creek east of Missoula.