Yes sir Mr. Dobbins,

You are correct. There are plenty of groups that promote the hobby of trapping. This is very important for bringing new trappers into the field. Anyone with a vested interest in trapping should be involved with this. My concern is with the commercial availability of wild fur. From a commercial view point I don't see any promotion of the actual "wild fur' product.

Fur in general is losing a lot of respect and even worse farmed fur is viewed as more humane than wild fur!

Crazy times!

Yeah , I mean promoting wild fur to the public. Not promoting trapping to trappers.

I promote the fact that wild fur is a renewable natural resource. I have my furs tanned locally and I sell the product to the locally community.
What I don't do is give my fur away for nothing so it can be sold to China at a substantial discount.

I have no incentive to encourage people to trap, unless I am going to sell stuff to trappers. I am just creating low price accepting competitors, if I con people into trapping at these prices. There was a reason" old school" was " old school".

Fur buyers, lure makers, and state trapping organizations do nothing to promote wild fur or fur trapping, its a joke.

They do promote fur trapping. Again, what do you do to promote it, or do you feel it's other folks responsibility to do it?

tb I believe that it would benefit you, to join the NTA and get active and you will find out what is going on to promote wild fur market and trapping over all , we the U P trapper's promote trapping year, our membership in recent years is climbing up,