Minnesota state officials released the details for the state’s first wolf hunting and trapping season today. The season will be split into an early season that coincides with the firearms deer season and a later season for hunting and trapping … [Read More]
Tag Archives: Fur Trapping
Trapping Ban Lifted in New Mexico
Trapping is allowed statewide in New Mexico once again. New Mexico state game commissioners voted unanimously late last week to approve a Game and Fish Department recommendation to eliminate the trapping ban in southwestern New Mexico. The ban, which lasted … [Read More]
A Handy Guide to Animal Tracks
Knowing how to interpret tracks on the ground is critical to any hunting or trapping endeavor. Here’s a handy guide from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Click here to see a much larger version.
What Makes an Animal Tame?
That is the question researchers in a “National Geographic” piece written by Evan Ratliff try to answer. The article focuses on a group of foxes that researchers have been attempting to breed to become more tame over the course of … [Read More]
Locavore Trend Turns to Furbearers
Eating food grown locally is a trend gaining popularity in urban areas. Those who practice it are referred to as “locavores.” Proponents say eating local uses fewer resources per calorie. One resident of the Bronx in New York City gave … [Read More]
Muskrat Slump Has Experts Stumped
From DemocratandChronicle.com According to various studies, the trapping harvest of muskrats in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region is down 75 percent to 80 percent since the early 1980s. New York’s harvest fell from 539,196 in 1982-83 to 108,324 in 2007-08, … [Read More]
Governor Acknowledges Trappers in Inaugural Address
When Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder made his inauguration speech earlier this month, he took time to recognize the contributions trappers made in the development of the state. From the Detroit Free Press: “Innovators and entrepreneurs were the leaders in the … [Read More]
Lone Mink Decimates Colorado Chicken Flock
It took 25 dead chickens for a family of Berthoud, Colorado, farmers to realize it had a mink problem. The attacks occurred just in time for Christmas. From the Berthoud Recorder: Over the course of two nights 25 of Busch’s … [Read More]
Tourism Restricts Trapping Access in Ontario
The large remote areas of northern Ontario seem like the last place trappers would feel concern over access. But that’s just what’s happening, as reported by Wayne Snider, city editor for Timmins Daily Press in Ontario. Outfitters granted exclusive rights … [Read More]
Maine Trappers Prevail Over Anti’s Again
Last week, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge upheld a lower court’s decision to throw out an anti-trapping lawsuit in Maine. Skip Trask, the legislative liason for the Maine Trappers Association, posted the following on the Maine Trappers Association website … [Read More]
