President's Report
Hello everyone,
Here we are again getting ready to start the
season. I sure wish you all the best on the trapline this year.
I have a few things I'd like to report on. On November 28th we met with the
officials of the US Fish and Wildlife Agency concerning our being allowed to
trap on the Federal Refuges. We explained our side and why we felt we
should be allowed to trap at these places. I know there will be some
areas they aren't going to allow trapping but our of the several hundred
thousand acres they control, surely there must be some where we can trap.
They listened and are going to meeti together and report back to us on their
answer When we met at the convention, Chris Sharpe reported on the
bill we wanted to introduce this coming year on the Nuisance license and
fees associated with that We voted and agreed on $25.00 license fee
and ID cards issued by the department at a nominal fee. We presented
it to the DNR Board to get their approval on this and they felt the fee was
too small. The department has asked for us to increase the fee to $100
and the cost of the ID cards to be $25. The ID cards would be for each
employee so they wouldn't have to buy a license. We feel that the
price we set is in line with other fees charged by DNR such as commercial
fishing licenses, shrimping licenses, crab pots, etc. We need to hear
from you, the members on the direction you would like for us to take
concerning this matter. Please contact your District Director and let
them know your feelings so they can pass it along to us.
Some of us have agreed to help out with some
gray fox samples this season so lets don't forget about that.
Also remember the fur coat project, we
decided to go with beaver this year, so if you would like to contribute to
this send you monetary donation to Freddie as soon as possible. The
furs are going to be donated so all we need to get is the money to pay for
the making of the coat.
A big thank you to Jack Caldwell for the
story he sent in on how he started trapping. I think it is great.
It made me think on how I was bitten by the Trapping "Bug" a long time ago.
One more thing, when you receive your
renewal notice for the SCTA please send in the entire slip you get, pleas
don't tear off a copy and keep it, we need the entire slip.
Ricky
OUR HELP NEEDED
District Director Jim Cooper has bought a
trailer and is going around the state at his own expense promoting Trapping
and the SCTA. He is in need of any trapping related items that we can
donate to display and show people about trapping. If you have
anything such as old traps, new traps, trapping magazines, skulls, tanned
pelts, mounted animals or anything else related to trapping, please call Jim
at (843) 546-2357.
THANK YOU
SCTA LIBRARY
SCTA member Joe Leonard from Aiken has
graciously agreed to help start a library of videos and books for our
members to use. Please contact Joe if you are interested in checking
out some of the videos or books, or if you have any videos or books that you
would like to donate to the the SCTA for this purpose.
CONTACT: Joe Leonard, 257 Old Tory Trail, Aiken, SC (803) 502-0810
