Make a simple Last Will and Testament with YOUR stipulations and wishes. Name an Executor of YOUR choice with the condition that should they not be willing, or able to fulfill said LW&T that a secondary Executor will be named to carry out such duties as YOU have set forth within the document. YOU can do this without an attorney if you wish. Such LW&T must be witnessed, and signed by at least two persons. In some cases, it doesn't even have to be recorded with your Register of Wills Office. You should however always consider attaining legal advice in your State if you have any doubts or questions regarding such matters.

I think Steve Gappa will do a wonderful job running the place and have the most honest easy going moderator's we've ever had on here, lol

I wouldn't turn it to anyone other than a trapper that I had the utmost trust in.

My mortality doesn't bother me.

My vote is for Patrice! A trapper, volunteer and very thorough on any undertaking she pursues!

Chris

Let Canvasback run it !!

Whoever it is, they'll be smart if they don't mess with Colonel Sanders recipe.

Not a pleasant thought Paul...but Good that you can handle the making of formal transition

This place is Quite the Family!!!

No, it's not. Great site, solid people.

I'm planning on being around for quite a spell, but I've also got to plan for the unexpected.

I may be new here, but I see the value in this website as it offers a community for all of us especially in a world that is shunning us more and more.

Good to plan, and as someone who might still be on this site after you're gone, I thank you for it!

Many nonprofits are set up to convert to a board-managed trust after the founder passes on or retires. You can select the first board of trustees and write the charter. The board can hire managers or make changes only by vote, according to your terms.

I vote you take it with you. Shut her down in respect to your memory. Lock it up and throw away the key. Take the lure and bait recipes with you as well. Unless your family really needs the money that is. No one is gonna be able to fill your shoes and do it all up to snuff anyway. Better for it to go out on top than get beat down little by little, with incompetent leadership, and go out in a pile of trash.

Someone would need to keep it going ADC.

Why? Its great now but what would it be with new management? I don't know of anyone that could pull it off.

Wolfdog

He's young got a good head on his shoulder and smart

I was thinking the same thing. We assume what Paul does is a labor of love and a source of pride and satisfaction that may not translate to whoever comes after. Who else is going to sniff their fingers to see if they got the batch right?

Trappers need a forum like this, guys.