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 ...

Fur trapping is as old as North Dakota itself, and while the practice remains part of the state’s heritage, today’s trappers ...

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 ...

Low fur prices may have kept some people from running traps during the trapping season that ended on Wednesday. In parts of Kansas, coyotes averaged $8. In the late 1970s, many sold for $70 or more.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The lone coyote works its way down the draw, the towering Bitterroot Mountains glittering with snow behind and above it. An inexperienced observer might think the wild canine is randomly cruising down ...