SDTA

One of the primary rules of Wildlife Management is to harvest or utilize natural resources. Trapping is an accepted and selective management tool for this harvest. In many cases, trapping is the only means we have of providing a proper harvest of our furbearing animals.

A well conducted harvest of furbearers ensures a healthy and stable population of these animals while allowing South Dakotans to benefit financially from the sales of these valuable furs. A well conducted harvest assists farmers and ranchers by controlling nuisance animals before they have an opportunity to damage livestock, poultry, crops or personal property. A well conducted harvest also assists in the control of predatory animals, thereby benefiting pheasants, waterfowl, and other upland game species in areas of diminishing habitat

Trapping remains today as a valuable management tool in the management and control of our many furbearing species. Harvesting is essential to the best interests of all abundant furbearer species, and the steel trap is needed today as much as ever to serve the best interests of the species and that of man.

South Dakota Trappers Association

2011 Miss Rodeo SD Vanessa Ternes

The SDTA works with the West River Fur Harvesters to donate a fur coat each year to Miss Rodeo SD

Mike Berg-Muskrat Trapping

Catherine Bachman-Beaver Skinning

Aaron Doyscher-Muskrat Skinning

2011 Spring Convention-Britton, SD

The current 2012 Trapping Regulation Proposals are on the Current Events page.  These proposals will be voted on June 7th by the SD Game Fish and Parks Comission.

Additionally, past harvest numbers are posted for your reading pleasure.