Help Pass on Hunting and Trapping Traditions

Waterbury, VT - Return the favor! The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department will be holding instructor classes for individuals interested in volunteering to teach hunter, bow hunter or trapper classes.

Anyone who hunts or traps owes their start to someone that took the time to teach them how. Here is an opportunity to give someone the tools to love wildlife and respect the resource as much as you do. Beginners often continue on the same path that they were started on. Here is your chance to help them down the right one.

The bow hunter education instructor class will be held Saturday, July 9, 2005 at the Buck Lake Green Mountain Conservation Camp in Woodbury VT.

The trapper education instructor class will be held on Saturday, August 13, 2005 at the Carpenter building in Waterbury VT.

The hunter education instructor class will be held Saturday August 27, 2005 at the Buck Lake Green Mountain Conservation Camp.

All classes will be held from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Anyone interested in becoming an instructor should have a minimum of three years experience as a hunter or trapper. All instructors must pass a full criminal background check before they are considered eligible to join the department's volunteer instructors.

For more information please call Marion at 802-241-3720

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For Further Information please contact: Ron Frey at 802-241-3723 or email to ron.frey@anr.state.vt.us