a little story, many years ago before the Berlin wall came down, I was giving our state trapping course. I remember A very tall dark hair fellow came walking up to me and asked me if I was the one in charge of the class, which I was. He spoke very good broken English. He told me that he was a trapper from Russia, and that he just moved to my state, matter fact, he had just arrived in our country just 6 months earlier. he asked if he needed to take the state trapping course to trap here. I asked do you have a trapping lic from Russia? at which he pulled out a paper with you guessed it, nothing I could understand LOL. I told him yeah you will need to take the 2 day course. He told me he had proof that he was a trapper in Russia. He ran to his car yes car LOL and came back with a big book filled with pictures. one of the first pics was of snow, he and his partner with a pile of fur, standing next to a big helicopter, looked like a old transport chopper. I asked about the pic. his reply was, I was a government trapper, my partner and I would fly it in to our line stay for the trapping season then fly it back out. I asked what type of trapping did you do for the government way out there in the middle of nowhere? he told me, fur trapping. The government paid him to trap wild fur, that was his job. I won't say anything else here on the discussion we had on how and why he ended up here in the USA, and I never knew what happened to him after he left the course, but I can't help but wonder is this the direction that this great country is headed in?
