Here is the freshly finished fur sale schedule (sorry not really clean, its copied from excel). Still trying to pull in as many bobcats and beaver as possible. Elmore County Fairgrounds Glenns Ferry Idaho March 8-10th
---March 8th Friday---
8:00 AM - Noon Volunteers Set up tables (you show up early we are putting you to work!)
Noon - 7 PM All Check in fur
2-3 PM Tyler Smith ADC Trapping/Porky Hair Retrieval
3-4 PM Chuck Carpenter Coyote Calling
Afternnoon Idaho Fish and Game Tagging otter and selling furbuyer licenses
4-5 PM Destry Haslett Bobcat trapping
5-6 PM Rusty Kramer Wolf Trapping
6-?? PM Joel Blakeslee NV, Angel Lovan, JD Brock, Kenny Kimball Beaver trapping Q and A
----March 9th Saturday----
7-10 AM All Taking fur in. Be here before 10AM or you miss out!
Morning Idaho Fish and Game Tagging otter and selling furbuyer licenses
9 AM - 4 PM Idaho Fish and Game Wolf Trapper Cert Class (must be pre registered) Free ITA membership after completion
10-11 AM Mike Krebs Skull Cleaning for profit
11-12 AM All (but need to register w/ Angel and BYOB) Beaver Skinning contest Prizes! Bragging rights! Facebook live event.
12-1 PM Mike Ward Wolf Snaring
1-2 PM Cory Mosby (IDFG Biologist) IDFG General Update. Grizzly, lynx and wolverine updates.
2-3 PM Rusty Kramer (Do not miss this) General Membership Meeting DO NOT MISS. Grizz lawsuit, convention update, wolverine membership drive, banquet update, trap rule changes, general ??. Facebook Live Event.
3-4 PM Catrina and Hunter Cloke Bobcat fur handling (take your cats over to their table for a free borax wash)
4-5 PM B Kinsfather (ID), C. Hedin (NV), Phil Brown (PA) Bobcat Q and A. Tens of thousand of bobcats under these legends belt.
5-6:30 PM All Live Auction of donated items w/ George Kortum. Please bring a donation. Don't miss!!
7:00 PM All Good Time Charlie Band (Sponsored by Mac Trapping Supplies)
-----March 10th Sunday----
9AM All Fur Buyers All bids in from fur buyers
9-10 AM Eric Saltzmen/Mike Martinez Skull, bone, feet handling for the craft trade
11-Noon Terry Abraham UT Bobcat fur handling
Noonish All Bids read. Fur shagged. No sales collected
After Noon All Help break tables down. We need help!
Camping spots available but no water available due to weather. Payment to the fairgrounds.
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ITA Members,
Folks here is the schedule for the ITA March Fur Sale. It is at the Elmore County Fairgrounds in Glenns Ferry on March 8-10th. If your shipping fur to me, it needs to be sent ASAP. Shipping is slow and I would hate for your fur to show up the day after the sale. If you need help shuttling fur to the sale within the state, we have folks coming from a couple directions and might be able to help you deliver fur. I am asking everyone to bring one donation item for our live auction on Saturday. These items help cover our costs of the sale. Donations can be anything from fur, ammo, handmade items, traps, jewelry, tanned fur, anything. Some more things to bring to folks attention:
You must have your fur to the fairgrounds BEFORE Saturday 10AM
You can put minimums on fur, but you MUST be there on Sunday in case it doesn't meet the minimum. On Sunday you will have a few minutes to say "SELL" if your fur doesn't meet the minimum.
If your bringing frozen items, bring them frozen and in a bucket.
We will not allow you to put a minimum on any item under $5.00. It is severely slowing down the sales on small dollar items that have minimums.
We will allow ammo, traps and tanned fur to sell on the sale.
IDFG will be selling furbuyer licenses (and the new 3-day nonresident licenses) and tagging otter at the sale. Bring exact change or a check.
We are allowing splitting of lots but copying Fallon's lotting rules. "3 single lots for every 15 animals of a species. 6 single lots for animals 16-30. 9 single lots for animals for animals 31-45".
It would make it easier to separate the lots of coyotes, fox and beaver if you put the same-colored zip tag in the eye of the pelts before you bring them to the sale. Don't worry about bobcats because they have CITES tags in them. If you don't want to do this, no problem, we will have it handled at the door.
Please text or email me your consignments for pelts. It helps me pull extra buyers in and know how much fur we can expect.
Excited to see everyone at the sale!
Thank you
Rusty Kramer
Idaho Trappers Association President
208-870-3217
