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Some trappers are expecting "catastrophic losses" to their food and financial security this year, as Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up in flames.
WINNIPEG — Some trappers are expecting "catastrophic losses" to their food and financial security this year, as Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up ...
NEAR SOLON SPRINGS - Jarid Rankila walked gingerly onto the frozen beaver pond, thumping the ice ahead of him with his ice spud - a long-handled spear-like chisel. If the thunk was solid, he would ...
On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years. It included a photo of an enormous black wolf he and his trapping partner had just caught, as well as the ...
Trapping is the most efficient way to manage and control populations of predators in order to help deer, turkey, and other prey species thrive. But trapping coyotes isn’t as simple as randomly setting ...
ROYAL, Iowa -- There was a time when just about every farm kid ran a trapline. But dragging out of bed at 5 in the morning to check a couple dozen sets before school doesn't hold a lot of appeal to ...
I am not a trapper, never have been. But after reading the many responses in letters on the News Tribune Opinion page to the newspaper's Jan. 7 profile of a young fur trapper ("Trapline wisdom"), I ...
PALMER — A new interactive online map is designed to help trail users avoid encounters between their dogs and traplines set near popular trails around Alaska. The map was developed by the Alaska ...
In this Feb. 2, 2019 photo, Coyote pelts for sale line tables at a trappers' auction in Herkimer, N.Y. (AP Photo/Michael Hill) WINNIPEG — Some trappers are expecting "catastrophic losses" to their ...