Hello trapping friends,

Our District was responsible for this year’s MTA Trappers Convention in Redwood Falls. The weather was perfect and the convention went off with no major clinches. See the convention report in this newsletter for more details.

District 7 and Minnesota Trappers Association was represented at the Nicollet Conservation Club on July 20th. We were invited as a vendor to display pelts of native animals. Thanks to Tyler Thompson and Nate Compart for giving me assistance. Our area was a big hit. There were over 200 hundred kids participating.

District 7 fall meeting is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 22rd at Schmitt Enterprise Inc. This will be a busy day. Schmitt Enterprise will be holding a customer appreciation and open house with doors opening at 8:30 am. We have demos scheduled for 9:30, 10:30, 1:30 and 2:30. We will have our district meeting at 11:30. We are also doing a field day certification class starting at 9:30 - going till 3:00. On line registration is preferred. Last year we tried this and we ended up certifying 20 participants and 11 of them signed up for MTA membership.

Oct. 6th is our next MTA board meeting. At this point, a location has not been chosen. If anyone has anything that you would like me to bring to the board please let me know.

Winter meetings and legal defense banquet is in Brainerd and next year’s convention is at Barnum. Make plans to attend and support yours and my organization.  

Pass it on Brian Fischer

Hey, my fellow trappers, I hope all is well, I want to thank all the volunteers that helped at the summer convention as it was a beautiful week and everything went well.

I want to wish everyone good luck on the upcoming trapping season.

Tyler Thompson