Hunters and Trappers

<ul><li>Patrol trap lines or nets to inspect settings, remove catch, and reset or relocate traps.</li><li>Obtain permission from landowners to hunt or trap on their land.</li><li>Travel on foot, by vehicle, or by equipment such as boats, snowmobiles, helicopters, snowshoes, or skis to reach hunting areas.</li><li>Skin quarry, using knives, and stretch pelts on frames to be cured.</li><li>Maintain and repair trapping equipment.</li><li>Scrape fat, blubber, or flesh from skin sides of pelts with knives or hand scrapers.</li><li>Obtain required approvals for using poisons or traps, and notify persons in areas where traps and poison are set.</li><li>Track animals by checking for signs such as droppings or destruction of vegetation.</li><li>Select, bait, and set traps, and lay poison along trails, according to species, size, habits, and environs of birds or animals and reasons for trapping them.</li><li>Participate in animal damage control, wildlife management, disease control, and research activities.</li><li>Release quarry from traps or nets and transfer to cages.</li><li>Kill or stun trapped quarry, using clubs, poisons, guns, or drowning methods.</li><li>Trap and capture quarry dead or alive for identification, relocation, or sale, using baited, scented, or camouflaged traps, snares, cages, or nets.</li><li>Wash and sort pelts according to species, color, and quality.</li><li>Teach or guide individuals or groups unfamiliar with specific hunting methods or types of prey.</li><li>Mix baits for attracting animals.</li></ul>