The UTA has a supporting membership program where you can show your support for trapping by becoming a "Supporting Member". There are no dues required and we will not bug you with communications, advertisements etc., nor will we sell or share your contact information. The only time we would communicate with you would be if an emergency came up and we needed your show of support. If you would like to become a "Supporting Member" please send an email to Cris Dew at: crisdew@hotmail.com.
We welcome your support. Please consider signing up. It only takes a minute to shoot Cris an email. There is an advantage to having good numbers of members.
The Member's Page has a new picture viewer that makes it much faster and easier. You have the options of several galleries; just click on the "Categories" tab to chose what you want to look at. Please help this to stay interesting and send me your trapline (or related) photos. tctaylor@wirelessbeehive.com
Welcome
We are glad to have you as our guest. The mission of the Utah Trappers Association is to promote our privilege of trapping in an ethical manner. It is the responsibility of us as trappers to do all that we can to help insure that our rich heritage of trapping will be passed on from one generation to the next.
We want this to be a fun web site as well as an informative one. Information will be provided on upcoming events as well as past events. Instruction on fur handling as well as humane sets will be included. The UTA feels it is important to place strong emphasis that the wildlife that we catch should be treated with the utmost respect. This respect begins before we ever set a trap and carries on in the pelt preparation and handling.
If you are not a member of the UTA or another state or national trapping organization, we strongly encourage you to do so. The future of trapping depends on strong state and national trapping organizations.
The UTA has 4 traditional activities each year. These are:
* Convention/Rendezvous....held Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morning each year, the week-end following Labor Day in Sept., at the Juab County Fairgrounds in Nephi. A General Membership Meeting is typically held early Saturday afternoon. The awards banquet is held Saturday evening. The raffle drawing will be held on Sat. night. There are contests, demos, vendors and lots of fun. AND, the price is right: FREE ADMISSION (except for the Awards Banquet. A potluck dish or small fee may be charged).
* Fur Sale....This is typically held on the second week-end in February at the Juab County Fairgrounds in Nephi. A General Membership Meeting is typically held early Saturday afternoon. Here members bring their pelts to be sold at auction. We have a great reputation as one of the best fur sales nationwide.
* Summer Camp Out is typically held Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday in the later part of June. We vary the locations from year to year. This is a very informal get-together. This activity is for fun and relaxation without all the work associated with the other activities. We usually have a shooting contest, horse shoe tournament and dutch-oven pot luck. A General Membership Meeting is typically held early Saturday afternoon.
* Youth Coyote Hunt...This is a coyote calling contest that involves the kids. One of the requirements of joining the contest is having a kid on your team. This is one of the most popular contests around and has very good support from members and sponsors and is sure to please any and all kids that participate. This is typically held in November and the hunt headquarters is the Juab County Fairgrounds in Nephi. A General Membership Meeting is NOT typically held.
IMPORTANT NOTICE TO MEMBERS
If you are a regular member and would like to receive our communications (News Letters) via email, we would LOVE to do that. It saves us postage money, the work of stuffing envelopes and you get your info days sooner. Please email Chris Dew at:
crisdew@hotmail.com
Convention photos are on the Member's Page.
Scholarship Information is available at the bottom of the President's Report page. Click on the forms to download them for information and application or email Stacy Dew at: . stacydew@hotmail.com
Updated forms for scholarship applicants are on the President's Report Page. Scroll down past the award photos and make sure you give the page time enough to load before downloading the forms.
Below are some of our suggested links:
Trapper & Predator Caller: business-magazines.com/prd9541.php
NTA: www.nationaltrappers.com/
DWR: wildlife.utah.gov/
FTA: www.furtakersofamerica.com/
Fur-Fish-Game: www.furfishgame.com/
Wild About Trapping: www.wild-about-trapping.com/
Fur Commission: www.furcommission.com/resource/index.html
Montgomery Fur: www.montgomeryfur.com/
Trapperman (Paul Dobbins): www.trapperman.com/
Wasatch Wildlife: http://www.wasatchwild.com
http://wildlife.utah.gov/furbearer/pdf/bobcat_plan.pdf
http://www.doghousehuntingclub.org
http://www.crittergitteroutfitters.com/
http://www.utahpredatorcallers.com/index.html
