Seeing how I'm not familiar with the regs regarding traps I thought I would ask before losing my cool.

This afternoon while working a piece of grouse cover I noticed my dog slowed up and was checking something out cautiously. Not knowing what he was in, and always watching for suspicious behavior I whistled him off it. When I walked up there was a large trap, not a leg hold trap but a trap the diameter of a trash can lid. No tag on it, and nothing to indicate its presence until we were on it. Over the next mile I found several others some smaller leg hold type with no padding at all.

My question is what are the regs? It seems crappy that these are scattered around and the big trap could easily kill a bird dog, while the smaller ones would probably break a leg. I'm all for every one having a chance to do what they love, but dang it sure is a little scary having this stuff all over with zero warning or indication it was there.

I was on public land btw