C2B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 9,1980
Trapper education
HARRISBURG - An
educational program
designed to produce
knowledgeable, ethical and
humane trappers in Penn
sylvania will be inaugurated
m the Keystone Statge this
year by the Game Com
mission.
Approval for establish
ment of the course was given
by the commission at its
January meeting.
Since 1958 the Game
Commission has ad
ministered a hunter
education program, and the
trapper training program
will parallel the hunting
course which has trained
800,000 youngsters in ethics
and safety.
The thrust of the new
trapper training program
will be to take those with an
interest in trapping and to
instill in them proper at
titudes on trapping methods
and ethics, and to instruct
them on the nature of
animals which are being
sought and principles of
overall traphne
management.
Emphasis will be placed
on selective setting of traps
to eliminate non-target
species from being caught.
Trappers will be taught how
to avoid catching pets,
raptors and other birds, and
how to safely release non
target animals and birds
from traps.
The new program will not
be designed to recruit new
trappers, nor will it be in
tended to teach would-be
trappers how to be suc
cessful at taking fur bearers.
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The course is being
developed by the Game
Commission m cooperation
with the Pennsylvania
Trappers Association. Many
of the instructors for the
course are likely to come
from the ranks of the
trappers’ organization.
District game protectors
this spring will be going
through a training course
conducted by Jack Weaver,
Game Commission trapper
training coordinator. The
course will be administered
by the Game Commission’s
Division of Law En
forcement, in cooperation
with the Division of In
formation and Education.
The district game
protectors will be respon
sible for the recruitment,
training and certification of
instructors, and the trapper
training courses will be
given throughout the state
starting this fall.
Trapper training will be
parallel to, but separate
from, hunter education.
Trappers, like hunters, have
a code of ethics, which will
be a key feature of the
trapping course. Courtesy
and sportsmanship are as
important for trappers as
they are for hunters, and will
receive heavy emphasis in
the new course.
High fur prices have
produced an all-time peak m
trapping interest in Penn
sylvania. It is believed that
the number of trappers in
the Keystone State is at a
minimum of 135,000, and at
times reaches more than
200,000.
make many promises, and
those unfortunate enough to
buy the materials often find
the products to be highly
diluted and therefore not too
much of a bargain,” Shnver
says.
Farmers are urged to
beware of calls from
strangers offering such
deals.
“It is far better for a
farmer making such an
outlay for pesticide
materials to purchase them
through a local supplier who
is known in the community,”
Shriver added.
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program
Real furs come from fur
bearing animals, which are
a renewable natural
resource. Fake furs come
from petroleum, which is
finite in availability.
Demand for furs is ex
pected to remain high in the
future, despite a shift in
fashion from long-haired to
short-haired pelts. The large
number of trappers afield
has naturally led to conflicts
between trappers, hound
smen, pet owners and lan
downers.
Many of these conflicts
involve young, inex
perienced trappers, who
have not been properly
trained in acceptable
trapping methods.
While the Pennsylvania
Trappers Association has
been conducting trapper
training courses on a limited
basis, the need for statewide
standards and program
objectives necessitates
involvement of the state
agency. Educational aids for
the course are now being
developed.
The Game Commission,
from experience in dealing
successfully with hunter
education, is in position to
assume the leadership role
in trapper training in the
state and, indeed, the nation.
The trapper training
program will be on a
voluntary basis, as the
hunter education program
was initially. Hunter
education is now mandatory
for all first-time hunters
under the aee of 16.
Subjects to be covered in
the trapper training course
will include, but not be
limited to, landowner
relations, humane trapping,
courtesy and sportsmanship,
ethical code, matching traps
to animals, care and storage
of equipment, proper and
acceptable methods of
trapping on land and in the
water, trap thett prevention
basic fur handling and law
and regulations governing
trapping.
In a further move to raise
the standards of trapping in
Pennsylvania, the Game
Commission has directed its
staff to seek changes in the
Game Law on several
trapping provisions.
An amendment will be
sought which would prohibit
the use of body-gripping
traps on dry land. Body-
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approved, changes proposed
gnppmg traps function in a
different way than leg-hold
traps. Whereas a leg-hold
trap merely restrams a
captured live animal, a
body-gripping trap produces
sudden, intense pressure
with kills the animal.
Many persons in the anti
trapping movement ad
vocate the use of body
gripping traps, rather than
leg-hold traps. However, a
body-gnpping trap is very
unforgiving if a non-target
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species, such as a pet dog or
cat, is caught. Because of the
danger that is associated
with body-gripping traps,
the Game Commission hopes
to prohibit their use on dry
land.
The Game Commission
will also ask the Legislature
to require that traps be
checked at least once every
26 hours, instead of the
present 36-hour
requirement. And an in
crease m the penalty for
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circular finishing
Automated Hog Confinement
failure to check traps within
the required tune period will
be sought; the present fine is
$lO, and the Game Com
mission will ask that the
penalty be increased to $25
for each trap not checked.
Finally, the Game Com
mission will ask the
Legislature to prohibit the
use of snares and deadfalls,
ancient capturing and killing
devices which have no place
in modern wildlife
management.
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