A fur management licence or trapper's identification card must be carried at all times while trapping. Resident trappers must also carry Form WA 19A signed by the landowner providing permission to trap on the lands involved. Licences may be purchased at an Alberta Environment district office . Before obtaining any fur management licence, first-time trappers must either pass a test which deals with humane trapping and fur management, or complete a Trapper Education course. Appointments to write tests may be made at Alberta Environment district offices .
Testing times vary with each office.
Other trappers must check such traps once in every 48 hours. Other species, classified as furbearers, must be taken in killing devices or in a live-trap set to capture the animal by holding it in a container. Holders of Resident Fur Management Licences may set snares for wolf, coyote, fox, bobcat, squirrel or weasel, provided they meet the requirements listed in the Alberta Guide to Trapping Regulations . They may also set snares for beaver, if the snare loop is completely under water. No one may remove, damage, spring or in any way interfere with traps set by another person for the taking of furbearing animals.