There aren’t many trappers out in the backcountry this season. There are certainly a few diehards that trap just because they need an excuse to be out in the wilds. Additionally, there are sport ...

Fur prices for trappers are affected by many factors, said Blake Sasse, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s nongame mammal coordinator. For example, Russians are more likely to purchase fur when ...

Fall is here, and furbearer trapping season has begun in Arkansas. The period for trapping beavers, muskrats and nutrias started at sunrise Nov. 11 and runs through sunset March 31. Coyote trapping ...

Duluth's Dan Croke can still remember the first fox he trapped. He was a kid, growing up in Two Harbors, and had to ride his bike to set and check his traps. His uncle, Cecil Swanson, had taught him ...

Rising fur prices caused by strong global markets are putting more trappers in the woods these days. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has sold 7,768 trapping licenses this year, the most ...

There won’t be many trappers in the woods this season. Fur prices are at an all-time low — that is, if you can sell any of them. Marten, a relatively valuable fur this past decade, have tanked. The ...

MISSOULA (AP) - Ed Hebbe, Mike Johnson and Dennis Schutz are not regular readers of Vogue magazine, but they're often among the first to know when fur is coming back in fashion. The three Montana men ...

Shawn Coston called it his “end of the line” photo. “Every trapper takes one,” he said. For Coston, who lives in Stamford, N.Y. in Delaware County, the 2018-19 New York trapping season was his best ...

One of the questions most frequently asked of trappers is what they do with the furs they catch. Some skins are tanned for wall hangings, garments and other fur novelties, but the majority of the wild ...

John Borror has spent many fall and winter mornings running a trapline before school or heading off to a job. It was a chance to earn some extra money, with animals such as raccoons bringing $15 or ...

The Iowa trapping season is underway, and a DNR expert says the prospects are good. Furbearer biologist, Vince Evelsizer, says there shouldn’t be any trouble finding furs. “Most of our species of ...