what we do for trapping

well trapping season is here .so things have to get busy , school called they want me to come talk about trapping . two days Friday an Monday ,first day we talk about different kind of traps an how they are use . we also go out in woods an make a set for coyotes ,a complete set with trap ,when im done we take trap away ,make the set look like it should an put a trail camera up to see what comes to set ,second day we go thru the reason we need trappers ,to help manage wildlife an prevent disease ,we also go thru fur that I bring in to class room , kids always have good questions.


any kid that want to go with me on trap line .I take them for a day

very,very good on you.

Good for you and thanks. I wish every school did that

been doing this at two different school for about 10 years

I believe I do some good might even change some of them young people mines ,about trapping

Great work Trapper Dahlgren, thank you.

Complements to you and the school! Great to see.

Well done sir

You are doing a great work. Make sure you spell minds correctly.

Excellent in all respects. Thank-you.

That is great!

I really like the idea of setting out trail cameras, it will really help as a teaching tool. I am going to steal that idea for my classes.

Keep up the good work.

Conduct 1-2 classes per year to get kids into trapping to get them outside and preserve our heritage. 17 students last weekend. Pass it on.

Excellent work you are doing, a credit to us all.

Excellent! This needs to be happening thousands of time every year all over the country!

Well done my man..

We need more of this. THank you for doing it.

Great job sir!

Thanks for taking the time to do this, great job!!

Very nice. I hope it piques their interest enough that someone might pick up the tradition of trapping. Is this a biology class that you do this demonstration for? From the young man's jersey, 1 school is Escanaba. Where is the second school you present at?

Thanks for the positive comments. Here is the problem last year for a class two guys came up from Long Island and two guys from NYC. This is at least 6 hrs one way. When asked why they responded they couldn’t get anything close to home. I suspect they waited but our class was in February. Ponder that. We need more volunteers.
btw we do 4 hrs on a Fri. Night and 4 hrs Sat am. They had to get motel rooms.

brucedrafter the second school is Gladstone but have not heard from them yet this year ,im trying to get into barkriver too thank you all I posted this so other might go out to local school an try to get in an show kids ,