As of January 1, 2010, the ISTA Membership prices have gone up slightly.  The prices listed on the website (both in the online store and the paper membership form) are correct.

*Note that the prices listed in The Trapper and Predator Caller and the 2009 Fall Newsletter are no longer valid!*

Please use the updated form which is available on the ISTA's home page or pay for it electronically through the ISTA's online store.

The Indiana State Trappers Association and FurBearers Unlimited will be holding a Trapper Education Fundraising Banquet on February 27, 2010.

We would like to invite you to help make this a very memorable banquet by Sponsoring a gun or some other vey nice prize for our general raffle. 

I have a list of 20 guns - rifles, shotguns, and hand guns that I would like to have available for the raffle.  Your support as a sponsor can make it happen.  The first 20 sponsors will have their name put on one of the firearms to be won.

Sponsor Option 1.  $200 donation gets you 2 banquet meal tickets and one ISTA t-shirt and your name on the $200 Sponsor List.

Sponsor Option 2.  $400 donation gets you 4 banquet meal tickets and two ISTA t-shirts and your name on the $400 Sponsor List.

Sponsor Option 3.  $600 donation gets you 6 banquet meal tickets and three ISTA t-shirts and your name on the $600 Sponsor List.

Please choose your level of Sponsorship and send a check to me at the following address:

You also can call me  (765-572-2207) if you would like to know what the list of guns and other prizes consists of.  We already have several guns and other prizes donated.  Please help us make this a great event.

Stu Grell,  Secretary and NTA Director for the ISTA

Congratulations to Brianna M. from Crawfordsville for winning the 2009 ISTA Scholarship.  

Brianna will be using the $1250 scholarship to help pay for college.  Good job!

On April 22, 2009, the trapping world lost a dedicated trapper when David Voland passed away.  Thanks to David for all his years of membership and participation in the ISTA and the trapping world.  His recent memorial donation to the ISTA is greatly appreciated.  Below is a poem enclosed in the program at his memorial service.

The Trapping Song

There is fun in trapping muskrats,

Mink and Marten and the sort.

Setting snares and making deadfalls,

Yes!  Kind friends I call it sport.

When the coming of November

Tells us fur is getting prime;

Then we hasten to the woodland,

Where we have a happy time.

I don't care to hunt for Rhinos,

Lions and that sort of thing;

Put me in a trapping country,

And I'm happy as a king.

Take me where the fur is plenty,

Into an Indiana Glen

Where the sly old Lynx and Bobcat

Hang around the baited pen.

Take me where the pine is tallest

Where the pleasures are untold,

Take me to the Flat Rock River,

Let me die there when I'm old.

I must close now, brother trapper,

Close until some future time

For the coming of November,

Call me out upon the line.

                                                                                                                          --Evan Cameron, Delta Co., Michigan