VTA Trapper Training

 

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Trapper Training Schedule

Application Form for First Catch Award Program

The VTA is dedicated to trapper education, whether it be with the non-trapper, the veteran trapper or the young trapper.  Currently, we are working in conjunction with the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries to establish a trapper training education program.  Similar in nature to the hunter's education program, we feel this program will help all trappers learn the basics & the essentials of humane wildlife conservation, by way of trapping.

Trapper Training Contacts:

 

Coordinator- Statewide:

Ed Crebbs

175 Waldrop Rd

Gordonsville VA 22942

540-832-2708

email: edcrebbs@yahoo.com

 

Assistant State Training Coordinator
Tim Tate
113 Cod Drive
Heathsville, VA 22473
Ph. 804-580-3130
timtate.nn@gmail.com
 

 

Williamsburg- Region 1:

Kevin Cornwell
13256 Queens Gate Terrace
Carrollton, VA 23314
757-238-2438
email: Kevin_cornwell@hotmail.com

 

Forest- Region 2 - West:

Greg Mason
407 Twin Lakes Road
Evington, VA 14550
email: Mason63@jetbroadband.com

 

 

Forest Region 2 - East:

Norman Pierce
315 Harpers Bridge Road
Rawlings, VA 23876
Ph: 804-478-4523
email: JuPier8@aol.com

 

Marion- Region 3:
Region 3 East
Gene Wirt
5401 Old Pike Road
Pilot VA 24138
540-381-4661
email:  Gene.Wirt@dgif.virginia.gov

Region 3 West
Tom Hampton
154 Dry Run
Marion, VA 24354
276-782-9190
email: tom23@earthlink.net

 

Verona- Region 4:

Warren Pence  
211 A Street  
Shenandoah, VA22849  
Ph. 540-652-8703  
email:  Warren.Pence@comcast.net

 

 

Fredericksburg- Region 5:
Acting Region 5 coordinator

Ed Crebbs


Trapper Training Schedule:


WHERE:  6356 South River Road, Stanardsville, VA  22973

WHEN:    Saturday March 24, 2012

TIME:      7:45am—5:30pm (rain or shine)

 

SPONSORED BY THE VIRGINIA TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION

This class is free but you must pre-register.  There will be Hotdogs and Hamburgers provided for lunch or bring your own.  Chairs are in short supply so if you have a folding chair you might want to bring it. 

Students should also bring boots for the water section.

 

From northern or southern VA take Rte. 29 to Ruckersville and go west on Rte 33 to Stanardsville.  From the East take Rte. 33 west and from the southwest or the Valley take I-81 to Rte, 33 and go east to Stanardsville.  Then go north on Rte 230 about 1 mile to South River Preserve and follow the signs.

 

To register contact Charlaine Crebbs at 540-832-2708 or

Ed Crebbs at ed.crebbs.1949@gmail.com

 


 


WHERE:  6356 South River Road, Stanardsville, VA  22973

WHEN:    Saturday October 1, 2011

TIME:      7:45am—5:30pm

SPONSORED BY THE VIRGINIA TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION

This class is free but you must pre-register.  There will be Hotdogs and Hamburgers provided for lunch or bring your own.  Chairs are in short supply so if you have a folding chair you might want to bring it. 

Students should also bring boots for the water section.

 

From northern or southern VA take Rte. 29 to Ruckersville and go west on Rte 33 to Stanardsville.  From the East take Rte. 33 west and from the southwest or the Valley take I-81 to Rte, 33 and go east to Stanardsville.  Then go north on Rte 230 about 1 mile to South River Preserve and follow the signs.

To register contact Charlaine Crebbs at 540-832-2708 or

Ed Crebbs at ed.crebbs.1949@gmail.com or on line at

http://www.dgif.virginia.gov/education/


Application Form for First Catch Award Program

The purpose of this program is to provide individual recognition to beginning junior trappers.  Each participant will submit a form documenting their first ever catch of a furbearer during a legal trapping season for furbearers in Virginia .   

Upon submission of the appropriate information a sew-on/iron-on patch will be provided to the applicant.  This patch (rocker) is an accompaniment to the already provided Trapper Education Patch earned by someone who successfully completes the Virginia Trappers Association Basic Trapper Training class.

 Each patch shall document the first ever catch of a specific Virginia Furbearer by a youth trapper during the regular trapping season.  There are eleven different patches available: otter, beaver, muskrat, mink, raccoon, opossum, skunk, coyote, red fox, gray fox, and bobcat. (Nutria is not included due to the small region of the state in which they are found.)

RULES         

  1. To participate an applicant must have taken the Basic Trapper Training Course within three calendar years of his/her first submission if under the age of eighteen. If eighteen years or older the applicant must have taken the Basic Trapper Training Course within two calendar years of his/her first submission.

  2. For the purposes of this event, all years of participation are determined from the last day of the month of March of the furbearer trapping season year of entry submission.  An applicant’s age is measured from his/her actual age on November 15 of the furbearer trapping season.  (If a submission is made during the 2007-2008 furbearers trapping season it is considered to be submitted March 31, 2008 and the applicant’s age is considered to be that which it was on 15 November 2007.)

  3. All application submissions will be made on the form provided and submitted to the individual’s District Director who will forward the application to his Regional Training Coordinator.  All applications must be received by the District Directors no later than April 15 of the application year.

  4. Regional Training Coordinators will evaluate the application and if approved, provide the award to the District Director, and forward the Application to the State Training Coordinator for file.  District Directors will present the applicant with his or her award at an appropriate occasion.

  5. The State Training Coordinator will advise the Web Master who will list the awardees on the appropriate web page.  He will also keep an electronic file of all awardees for five years from the date of award.

  6. All application submissions will be maintained by the VTA Training Coordinator for a period of three years for historical purposes.

Highlight and print the following application:

 

Name: _______________________________________________     Age: __________________

                                                                                                                    On 11/15 of this trapping season

Address: ______________________________________________________________________

 

City: _______________________________   State: ________   Zip Code: _________________

 

County:  ___________________________   District: __________   Training Region: _________

 

Date of Completion of Basic Trapper Training Course: _________________________________

 

Location of Course: _____________________________________________________________

If you cannot locate your date and location contact the State Training Coordinator for this information prior to submitting this form.  See www.virginiatrappers.org for contact information.

 

I am applying for the FIRST CATCH AWARD for the following animal(s):

 

Coyote __________                Red Fox __________             Gray Fox __________

 

Bobcat __________                Raccoon __________             Opossum __________

 

Otter: ___________                Beaver: ___________              Muskrat: __________

 

Mink: ___________                Striped Skunk _________

 

I certify that this animal was caught by me with no physical help from another person and that this is the first time I have caught this type of animal in a steel live-catch foot hold trap, Conibear style trap, or snare (cage traps are not acceptable).  I understand that while I may have had help in the decisions involved in trapping this animal the actual anchoring and physical making of the finished set was done by me.

 

___________________________________              ________________________________

Signed                                                                             Date

 

___________________________________              ___________________________________

Signature of District Director                                                  Signature of Regional Training Coordinator

 

Patch issued to District Director for applicant: ________________________________________

                                                                                    Date                                         Initials

 

Date form received by Training Coordinator: ___________________

                       


Date entered into database: ____________________   Initials: _____________________

                                                                                                            Training Coordinator

 


 

   

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