NFH 2025 Convention Schedule: September 26-27

The Nebraska Fur Harvesters meeting will be at 6:00 pm Thursday, Sept 25. 

The leadership meeting will start at 5:00 pm Friday, the 26th. There will be order-out food available for attendees.

The NFH Banquet will Saturday evening. Doors will open at 5:30 pm. 5:30 to 6:30 will be open for games and raffles. 7:00 pm dinner will be served and followed will be the fundraiser auction.

Friday, Sept 26  at 7:30 am the fairgrounds will be open to the public. 

Demo Schedule Friday, September 26

  • 8:00 a.m. Travis Chilson, South Dakota: State Predator Agent Trapping Coyotes 
  • 9:00 a.m. Don Lietzau, Arizona: Snake Training Your Dog
  • 10:00 a.m. Ladies trapping demo, ladies only 
  • 11:00 a.m. Scott Schaefer, Nebraska: Nest Raider Predator Control 
  • 12:00 Lunch Break 
  • 1:00 p.m. Mark Ross, Nebraska: Snaring Coyotes, Beaver and Otter 
  • 2:00 p.m. Rusty Kramer, Idaho: Trapping Wolfs 
  • 3:00 p.m. Gary Jepson, North Dakota: Proper Use of Lures 
  • 4:00 pm   Mike Sells, Iowa: Calling Raccoon 
  • 5:00 p.m. Dinner Break 
  • 6:00 p.m. Gary Mackie, Nebraska: Beaver Skinning and Stretching 
  • 7:00 p.m. Events will be over and doors will be locked 

Saturday, September 27 

Gate to the fairgrounds will be open to the public 7:30 am 

  • 8:00 a.m. Sam Wilson, Nebraska: NGPC Biologist Mountain Lion Management 
  • 9:00 a.m. Paul Antzack, Montana: Mountain Men TV series Wolf Trapping 
  • 10:00 a.m. Craig O’ Gorman, Montana: Questions and Answers on Trapping 
  • 11:00 a.m. Kirk Budd, Nebraska: The History of the Fur Trade Museum 
  • 12:00 Lunch Break 
  • 12:30 p.m. EJ Kelly, Wyoming: Trapping Bobcats 
  • 1:30   p.m. Dave Hastings, Nebraska: Trapping Badgers 
  • 2:30  pm. Jim Ball, Arizona: Cage Trapping Bobcats 
  • 3:30 p.m. Geoff Nemnich, Nebraska: Calling Predators and Thermal Hunting 
  • 5:30 p.m. Doors Open for the Fundraiser Banquet 

If you’re not doing something to preserve trapping and hunting you’re destroying it.