Bradford County Farm Days
“Bradford County Farm Days 1866” held in Troy. Pictured are Terry Lutz District 9 and Herb Senderling District 7 along with Sullivan County fourth grade students.
District 5 Spring Meeting
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Doors open at 12:00 – Meeting starts at 2:00 PM
Laurel Ridge Sportsman Assoc.
G.P.S location: 2906 Coxes Creek Rd., Somerset, PA 15501
There will be an election held for District Director. Your choices are: Don Sager or Dale Yoder!
Please attend & vote your choice! Updates & Reports from State Meeting will be presented. Food & Drinks will be available!
District 5 Director – Mike Ridilla – 814-629-6111
National Tourism Week
PR Director Barry Warner spent the day at Great Bend Welcome Center and cooperated with PENNDOT Welcome Center to celebrate National Tourism Week. Good turnout with a large number of visitors with questions regarding fur and trapping. Individuals from Canada, a number of US states, along with several of our PTA members.
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D3 Lifetime Achievement Award
John Wilkinson accepting the D3 Lifetime Achievement Award
The PTA & PGC
Don Powell, the Vice President West of the Pennsylvania Trappers Association, is pictured Meeting with Bryan Burhans the Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director. Having a working relationship with all of our officials is important! Powell said both the PGC and PTA are doing great jobs as stewards of our land and renewable resources. Pennsylvania is the land and water of opportunity for us! Our future will continue to be bright as long as we are willing to work and willing to work together! The Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen and Conservationists need us all to support them as they fight for us.
4th Annual PTA District 8 Spring Sportsman’s Show
We had a record crowd at our 4th Annual PTA District 8 Spring Sportsman’s Show in Blain, PA. A big thank you to NWTF Sherman’s Valley Strutters chapter for holding our turkey calling contest, Cumberland Valley Trout Unlimited for their program, The Blain Fire Company and BootLLeg Ice Cream for all the great food, all the vendors, attendees, and members of District 8 for all their hard work.
GAME COMMISSION RECOGNIZES TRAPPER INSTUCTOR
Barry Warner receives award for outstanding service to agency and PA trappers
The Northeast region of the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) recently awarded Dallas resident Barry Warner with an Outstanding Hunter-Trapper Education Instructor award for his contributions to the agency’s Successful Furtaker and Cable Restraint certification programs.
Mr. Warner logged over 240 volunteer hours since becoming an instructor in 2008 and donated 27 hours teaching advanced Game Commission trapping classes in 2018. He provides trapper training to cadets attending the Game Commission’s Ross Leffler School of Conservation in Harrisburg and State Game Wardens stationed in the Northeast region.
“Barry is a highly passionate, knowledgeable and skilled trapper,” said Game Commission Information and Education Supervisor William Williams. “His instruction at trapper training classes is very hands-on and he sets up a demonstration area that provides valuable visual aids, driving home key teaching points on legal and illegal sets.”
Warner also instructs at numerous Pennsylvania Trappers Association (PTA) training schools held around the state each year. He is the PTA’s public relations director and has been instrumental in developing Best Management Practices for North American furbearers.
Skull Cleaning
Joey Della Penna and his father Chris have been helping Dan Lynch of the PGC with cleaning some of the many skulls the trappers of PA have been donating for youth education. Joey has a real interest in wildlife and recently asked if he could clean a variety of skulls and then use them in a display for a program at school. Joey does museum quality work and will probably one day be involved in wildlife as a career and part of it will be due to his extreme interest in wildlife. The PTA members should be proud to be a small part of his future.