What Are the Goals of BMPs?

BMPs serve as a reference guide to wildlife management agencies, conservation organizations, tribal nations, researchers, trapper organizations, individual trappers, and others interested in the continued improvement of traps and trapping systems. The goals of BMPs are to:

• Promote regulated trapping as a modern wildlife management tool.
• Identify practical traps and trapping techniques that continue to improve efficiency, selectivity, and the welfare of trapped animals.
• Provide specifications for traps that meet BMP criteria for individual species in various regions of the United States.
• Provide wildlife management professionals with information to evaluate trapping systems in the United States.
• Instill public confidence in and maintain public support for wildlife management and trapping through the distribution of science-based information.