Youth Mentoring
Students that have completed the 3 levels of our Trapper Youth Camp will be given priority in this program.
YOU MUST HAVE YOUR TRAPPING LICENCE TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM
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DECEMBER 15 - 19, 2025
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5 DAYS - FREE OF CHARGE
THANK YOU TO APOS and MSLA for Partnership in the Youth Camps
A Youth Trapper Mentoring Program to assist youth that do not have anyone to help them get off to a good start and receive the mentoring to ensure success and training.
This is a 5-day program teaching the hands-on of setting traps, and handling fur, building their own forming boards and in field training for safe handling of trapping equipment. ​We will travel mainly by foot with a snow sled to pull across the trapping area.
This will provide the students the opportunity to set and capture the fur bearers, how to skin, flesh and board the fur they catch. As part of this program each student would receive trap safety’s and setting tools along with all the safety gear needed to work with the traps and equipment. The students will take home their forming boards made during the program, as well as their safety equipment and a small starter kit. This equipment will help them get started in the trapping industry.
This program will run during the December 2025 trapping season to ensure a variety of furbearers during the 5 days on the trapline.
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BEGINS AT 9:30 AM Instructors Hunter Botham & Steve Rees
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Hunter Botham has been with the Alberta Trappers Association since 2016. He began his training with Ross Hinter in 2017 teaching trapper education courses.
He is very active in Youth Programs as an Instructor, as well as an Instructor with the Standard Education Course.
He works in the Fur Depot, he works in the Store, he works everywhere.....
The Youth love him and his skills are very valuable to those he helps to mentor.
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Steve Rees has been teaching with the Alberta Trappers Association Youth Camp since 2018 and is amazing with the Youth. He began teaching Youth Mentoring in 2021.
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