About Us
The year was 1962 when a young man at the age of 15 stood up from the supper table and declared he was heading into their wilderness backyard to shoot a moose.
His parents were homesteading up in northern Alberta where the winters are long and biting -40 degree cold can sometimes hang on for weeks at a time. As his parents and siblings looked on, this young man bundled up in his warmest outdoor clothing and walked off into the nearby forest. Deep snow and cold would be his companions on this evening with winter having set in. Not long after, a shot was heard. With his siblings quickly gathering up butchering gear, they headed out following his tracks with great enthusiasm to help process this moose that would help sustain them through the winter. That young man is my father.
The year was 1962 when a young man at the age of 15 stood up from the supper table and declared he was heading into their wilderness backyard to shoot a moose.
His parents were homesteading up in northern Alberta where the winters are long and biting -40 degree cold can sometimes hang on for weeks at a time. As his parents and siblings looked on, this young man bundled up in his warmest outdoor clothing and walked off into the nearby forest. Deep snow and cold would be his companions on this evening with winter having set in. Not long after, a shot was heard. With his siblings quickly gathering up butchering gear, they headed out following his tracks with great enthusiasm to help process this moose that would help sustain them through the winter. That young man is my father.
Jake has been a trapper from the time he was a young boy.
He has a great respect for wildlife and the habitat in which they exist and proliferate. Managing fur-bearers and their habitats on a trapline where individual species can thrive in sustainable numbers requires understanding, patience, and a realistic vision of today and tomorrow.
Jake faces the challenges on this subject with 40 years of firsthand experience and education. He works closely with Fish & Wildlife, farmers, ranchers, hunters, trappers, and the public that have vested interest in his trapping activities and what it means to them.
Hunting and especially trapping and wildlife management has been in his blood since he was a boy. The trapping heritage continues to thrive in his family as it is now being passed onto his four kids.
My wife’s father trapped, our uncles and forefathers trapped, hunted and fished and these adventurous ways continue on in our family today.
Trapping has recently become a twelve month a year affair in wherefrom the month of May till freeze up, it sees Jake looking after his regional county nuisance beaver population control.
