Showing posts with label trapping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trapping. Show all posts
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Vicious: Wolves and Men in America

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Despite a lot of talk and unfounded rumor , there is only one record of a non-rabid wolf killing a human in North America since the arr...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

A Pennnsylvania Fox Trapper's Season

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It's almost that time of year folks.    If you and your dogs are out in field and forest, please read these posts: How to Set -- and R...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Eye Ulcerations from Underground Skunk Spray

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It's that time of year -- more terriers being hunted with the cool weather , and more skunks being found to ground for the same reason....
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Variability in Size & Law and Among Wild Canids

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A 104-pound coyote or a wolf with a little coyote in it? I got a question earlier today about variability in the size of red fox. M y...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

Trap Line Dog

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This story of dogs, dog training, and dog respect is ripped straight from the pages of Hunting Dogs by Oliver Hartley, printed in 1909 ...
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Thursday, December 02, 2010

Fall Means the Return of the House Mouse

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If it's Fall, it means mice are about to find their way into garage and probably kitchen. It's never more than one or two, but e...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Getting the Public to Subsidize Your Terrier Work

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Mike Hotard, of Hotard Wildlife Control has a nice little thing going on . He's apparently charging the Bayou St. John Neighborhood Asso...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Terrierman in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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A hat tip to outdoor columnist Bill Marchell who mentioned the trap release page we have on the Terrierman.com web site in his recent colu...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

How to Set -- and Release -- a Conibear Trap

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Mountain and an old Conibear found at the entrance to a sette the dogs entered. Let's begin with the most important thing: Conibear tra...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Maryland Fox Trapping

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A repost from this blog, circa February 2005. The picture, above, is from a trapper who lives about 12 miles north of where I typically hunt...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Cull of the Wild

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This book set out the tenets of wildlife management still in use today. This post is reprinted from this blog circa June, 2005 D...
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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Hunting and Fishing Like Adults

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This is a recycled post from August 18, 2006 prompted by a recent discussion, in the comments section to a post about mounted Maryland fox h...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Modern Scientific Trapping

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In Management by Majority Ted Williams writes in Audubon magazine that: "When legholds are used by people who know and care about w...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Make Your Own Rat Trap

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If you're looking to trap rats in order to train a young dog, you can use a very small Havahart trap, or you can make your own. Click h...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

More Than 100,000 Active Trappers in the U.S.

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While drilling on the Internet for the lastest bobcat trapping statistics for Virginia (I did not find them), I came across a 2005 report t...
Monday, March 31, 2008

Otter Ironies

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One of the ironies of wildlife management is that the very devices that pushed so much wildlife to the edge of extinction -- guns and traps...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Thriving in America

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European naturalists occassionally come over to the U.S. just to see animals that once existed on their side of the Atlantic, but are now e...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

New $5 Fur Bearer Permit Required in Maryland

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Beginning in the 2006-2007 season, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has required that folks that "hunt, chase, trap,...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

Trapping and the Cull of the Wild

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Phil Brown's 1,202 red fox. Over at Mike Hackenback's blog for Outdoor Life he posted a picture (above) of 1,202 red foxes caugh...