As a wildlife damage specialist for the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks, I’ve accepted the fact that odd odors are just part of the job. From handling skunks to hard working interns that haven’t ...

The vast number of traps, lures, baits, tools and other gadgets available to the modern trapper can be overwhelming to a beginner when trying to determine what equipment is vital in their quest to ...

NORFOLK — Roger Johnson and his wife were hiking near Haystack Mountain State Park when they came upon a young beaver caught in a steel trap near a small pond and instinctively went to investigate.

RURAL GRYGLA, Minn. - A stiff dead beaver laid on the tailgate of Tim Worthington's pickup. He had just lugged the animal up the steep banks of a drainage ditch after removing it from a trap set near ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes -- Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice ...

Tom Walters of Bettendorf started fur trapping when he was about 11 after he found traps hanging on a wall of the barn at his grandparents’ farm north of Independence, Iowa. “Grandpa said, ‘I don’t ...