The temperatures are cooling down, and the trapping season is almost here. The market is not great, but I have found pleasure in trapping with friends, family, and, if time allows, kids who want to learn about the sport of trapping. Besides trapping, hunting, and family events, I find myself working to improve my knowledge of the NTA Director position, helping with both the MTA and the NTA. I am trying to find ways to get people involved in MTA, NTA, or both. I feel like it is not an easy task but there are a lot of great people helping me and expanding my knowledge of the two organizations.

The NTA has a new president in 2025, Rusty Kramer from Idaho. Kramer laid out several goals that he wants to meet as the NTA president. I believe Kramer’s top goals is NTA membership. In the August 2025 report Kramer explained the following: I have some new ideas to promote the NTA and a great team to help me achieve it. A new AFWA survey recently came out and there are now more than 400,000 trappers in the country. 400,000 trappers!! NTA membership right now is a shade under 9,000. I am thoroughly ashamed of that kind of percentage of trappers are NTA members; in fact, it thoroughly depresses me. I will continue to sound like a broken record, but we must get those numbers up. I am going to come up with some new ideas to help but I am challenging every one of you reading this to sign up new NTA members. I am also challenging each one of you to sign up as a sustaining member of the NTA. I have a goal of increasing membership by 10% and it needs to start now. We must try and get in front of this mass influx of new trappers and get them involved with the NTA.

The next topic I wanted to mention in the report is the 2026 NTA Convention. I hope everyone puts the NTA Convention for 2026 on their own schedule and makes plans to attend the NTA Convention. I will include the NTA Convention information directly from the NTA Coordinator Bryan Nelson below.

The 2026 NTA Convention is in Indiana on July 23rd-25th, 2026.
Wayne County Fairgrounds
861 Salisbury Road
Richmond, IN

The Host Hotel –
Holiday Inn Express
6000 National Road East
Richmond IN 47374.
877-859-5095. 
Our group rate is $149/ + tax.
A Direct Booking Link is posted on the NTA website.

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Dan Greenwald, your NTA Director