Meet Your Board of Directors
Keith Bayha

Name

Keith Bayha

Year of Birth

1940

Place of Birth

Michigan

Occupation

Retired; former biologist with US Fish & Wildlife Service

Number years on Board of Directors

2

Age when started trapping

7

How did you get started trapping?

Father demonstrated muskrat sets. After moving to Alaska, began attending ATA trapping schools.

Special memories of early years

• First mink
• Falling through ice near a beaver lodge in Michigan
• First red fox in North Dakota; pulled trap stake; followed drag mark to den where stake wedged.

Number of years trapping in Alaska

26

Locations trapped in Alaska

Parks Highway streams from Big Lake to Trapper Creek; Matanuska Glacier

Special memories of trapping in Alaska

• First wolf; taken after attending ATA wolf school
• First wolverine; buried in snow; had to search for it
• First lynx taken in a set actually intended for a lynx
• Catching both thumbs in an "Alaska #9;" partner took photo before release