TRAPPERS’ CONVENTION IN TBAY

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The local chapter of Ontario Fur Managers’ Federation has a popular booth in the Coliseum in the CLE grounds today
(Friday) and tomorrow (August 26).
Some of the rich harvest from NWO.
Greenstone District has as collapsible trapper’s shack with locally caught fur.
Ed Hoffman displays a wolf he trapped just SE of Flint Lake on his trapline. He calls it a “tawny” wolf.
One of the stalwart guardians of our forests and wildlife.
Conservation Officers’ booth.
The CO shows the evidence in one of their cases. The owner of this truck was charged with carrying a loaded rifle in his vehicle.
The culprit was caught after his rifle discharged inside the cab.
Michael De Jong, the curator, often attends public events. Here he poses with a fellow historian (left), John Lavoie (yes, he’s a relative),
who runs the museum in Manitouwadge.
Yummy, yummy.
Smoky, another guardian of the forest, stands stoically while the arrows fly.
His heart is straight and his aim is true.

The convention is open to the public till 4:00 p.m. Saturday, August 26.

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