It all started back when I was 12 years old. I was pondering through a  stack of  old magazines when I came upon a old and sun bleached magazine called  ''Fur-Fish-Game".  As I searched through it I was amazed on how information there was crammed with-in the  small magazine.  Then I came upon a article on how to trap coons. I was  starting to get really fascinated on this old art of Trapping.  I soon was  looking back in the classifieds to  look for a place to buy some trapping gear.  At first when I told my dad and  all his friends they kind of looked at me in a dumb way.  My dad supported me  but he just said not as many people do it any more and the antis are going  be hard on you if they find out there's  one in the area.  And all of his friends said I was just crazy.  They said I'm  wasting my time and going to be loosing money by traps stolen and low fur  prices.  But I didn't care I wanted  to try this Trapping thing out. Soon I got a catalog and ordered some traps  and supplies.  And bye the next fall I was ready to go. I had my traps all dyed  up and ready to go.  But it didn't work out the way I planned. I ended up  with a skunk a coon and 3 possums.  But I  can still remember each animal I caught with a vivid picture.  And still  today 6 years later I am still trapping strong.  But I gained political  powers with it also.  I am now a member of the National Trappers Association  and a Member of the Michigan Trappers Association.  And in addition I will soon be getting licensed to trap Animal Damage Control  all year around.  In this next section I will discuss how trapping benefits the animal population by keeping it in a healthy balanced number.  First off I would just like to say that.  Trapping is a  must.  No matter how many people don't like it, the USA needs it.  With out it  the USA would be covered with pestilence in a matter of a short time.  Such animals like the beaver, coon and the coyote need to be controlled.  Not just  for nuisance reasons but for the stoppage of diseases of spreading.  Beavers  for instance can have 2-5 kits a year.  And with out control the colony of  beavers were which 2 can grow to be 7 in a matter of a year.  And with  7  beavers in a given area farmers or land owners can suffer great losses.  Losses such as land owners can lose that pretty tree that once held there  hummingbird  feeders.  Or a farmer can have his fields flooded were he looses all of his  crops due to drowning of the plants.  For another example coyotes have to be  controlled because if not they cause huge depletion of lambs and small  livestock on ranches.  With in turn makes the ranches looses money.  Also they  have to be controlled because of stopping diseases from being spread  around.  A such disease as mange which inflicts a cruel and agonizing death.  But if trappers control that properly they don't have to worry about that as  much.  And for my last and final point I'm going to make is the parasite that  the raccoon carries.  This awful thing that coon carry is a parasitic worm  ''Baylisascaris Procyonis'' that lives in  raccoons dung.  This worm can thrive in humans.  At one case a young child was  playing by a chimney and picked up some raccoon dung and ate it.  Bear in  mind this was a real young child'' Soon the symptoms started to take its  affect.  He had neurological problems and had a hard time controlling his  muscles.  When the boy passed away they did a autopsy and found that there  was the worm larvae in his brain.  But I believe all trappers are helping out with these problems every day when they go out there and trap.  So in closing this is why I trap and believe how it helps Nature. 

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