My advice whenever applying for any licenses or permits are to clump them together as much as possible as the $4 processing fee applies to each total transaction, not per individual license or permit..
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Regardless, most trappers are now thinking about how and where to market their fur and are interested in what prices their fur will bring at market. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of bright spots for Midwestern fur.
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Springfield — The Illinois Trappers Association (ITA) will hold a single fur sale in 2023. The sale will be held Feb. 18 at Krile Auction House on Route 32 in Strasburg. Doors will open at 7 a.m. and the sale will begin about 9 a.m. The ITA will be holding several raffles, including the traditional
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Roughly halfway through the current bobcat season, harvest figures appeared to mirror previous Illinois seasons.
“While numbers can change by the minute, as of January 3 the current harvest was right at 128,” Stan McTaggart, head furbearer biologist for DNR, reported.
Those numbers are slightly above last year and about level with 2019. The numbers are also slightly below the 2018 and 2020 numbers at the same point in the season.
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As the Illinois trapping season nears – it opens Nov. 10 statewide – I’m reminded that the last couple of years have been pretty tough on wild fur.
Fur Market Report: What can trappers do with furs this season? Read More »
Odds were improved in recent years when DNR’s bobcat permit lottery was restructured so trappers and hunters who received a permit one year were ineligible to receive a permit the next year.
Bobcat season: 6,300 apply for 1,000 permits in Illinois Read More »
Let’s say you were one of the lucky recipients of a 2022 bobcat permit. I say lucky. Because I am not – this is my seventh lottery and I have yet to draw a tag. So, like I said, lucky. Oh, well, the head furbearer biologist for the DNR also has never drawn one either.
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The Illinois Trappers Association convention was held Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7-8, at the Macon County Fairgrounds in Decatur, Ill. There was a full demo schedule each day. Topics included beaver, muskrat, coyote, raccoon, and bobcat trapping with a few other subjects such as the use of baits and lures thrown in as well. Demos,
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I’ve had a number of long talks with Guy Groenewold (Groenewold Fur & Wool – the largest private fur buyer in North America) this year about the fur industry. GFW is interesting because they buy and sell fur every day all year long. This gives them a particularly useful insight about the fur industry at
As Illinois trapping season nears, fur market shows some movement Read More »
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