NFH 2025 Convention Schedule: September 26-27

Nebraska Fur Harvesters Fall Convention Demo Schedule

Sept. 26 -27, 2025 

Dawes County Fair Grounds

2009 E Gordon, 

Chadron, NE 69337

Thursday, September 25th – 6:00 PM – Association Business Meeting

Vendor buildings open at 8:00 AM

Demo Schedule Friday, September 26

  • 8:00 AM Travis Chilson (State Predator agent) South Dakota, Trappi9ng Coyotes
  • 9:00 AM Don Lietzau – Arizona – Snake Training your dog
  • 10:00 AM Jim Ball – Arizona _ Cage Trapping bobcats
  • 11:00 AM Scott Schafer -Nebraska – Nest raider predators
  • 12:00 Sam Wilson – NE game & Park – Mountain Lion management
  • 1:00 PM Mark Ross – Nebraska – Snaring Coyotes/ beaver / otter
  • 2:00 PM Rusty Cramer – Idaho – Trapping wolves
  • 3:00 PM Gary Jepson – North Dakota – Proper use of lures
  • 4:00 PM Mike Sells – Iowa – Calling raccoon
  • 5:00 PM Dinner Break and Leadership meeting
  • 6:00 PM Gary Mackie , Nebraska – Beaver skinning 

Saturday, September 27 

  • 8:00 AM Scott Phillips Oregon – Trapping Mountain lion
  • 9:00 AM Paul Antczak – Mountain Man TV series – Wolf trapping
  • 10:00 AM Craig O’Gorman – Montana – Question and answers
  • 11:00 AM Kirk Budd Nebraska – History of the museum of the fur trade
  • 12:00 PM Lunch break
  • 12:30 PM E.J. Kelly – Wyoming – Trapping bobcats
  • 1:30 PM Dave Hastings – Nebraska Trapping badgers
  • 2:30 PM Jenna Malinowski – Ladies only trapping
  • 3:30 PM Geoff Nemnich Nebraska Calling Predators and thermal hunting
  • 5:30 Nebraska Fur Harvesters Banquet
  • 5:30 – 6:30 games and raffles
  • 7:00 PM Dinner and fund-raising auction following 

Supporting this auction is the only way the NFH is funded.

This schedule is subject to change. All too often life provides issues causing a person to alter their schedule and plans.