A rare skunk, a father’s wisdom and a hidden Christmas gift. Read this touching story of a 7th-grade trapline and the lesson ...

Ohio’s hunters and trappers are gearing up for a busy and promising stretch of late fall and winter, as the state’s 2025–26 small game and furbearer seasons officially opened this past week. The Ohio ...

Raccoons are one of 14 species Iowans can hunt or trap during furbearer season, which begins Saturday Nov. 1, 2025. (Camera trap photo by Bryan White/USFWS) Craig Sweet, president of Iowa Trappers ...

The Iowa furbearer season opens on Saturday and DNR furbearer biologist Vince Evelsizer says the trapping prospects look good. Evelsizer says the wet start to the year helped fill up waterways, which ...

The public has been provided with misleading information. The recreational trapping season in Vermont began Oct. 25 and runs through March 31. This includes the use of baited, steel-jawed leghold ...

VTF&W Photo: A trapper makes a beaver set beneath the ice during Vermont’s regulated season for this species. Vermont Business Magazine Vermont’s regulated land and water trapping seasons open on ...

The common muskrat may be an important ally in our fight against an invasive plant species. In a study published in the journal Freshwater Science, researchers investigated how muskrats disturbed ...

The recreational trapping season in Vermont begins on Oct. 25 and runs through March 31. This includes the use of baited steel-jawed leghold traps and body-crushing kill traps, as well as underwater ...

KINGSLEY, Iowa -- The traps have been set, pulled and stored once again as Jan. 31 was the last day of trapping season for most animals. What kind of season was it? A good one, according to trappers ...

PHOTO PROVIDED Shown is a muskrat in this photo by the Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association. The Middle Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association is seeking feedback from trappers and other outdoor ...

Noah Johnson Daily Press The 2025 Annual Trapper’s Convention/Outdoor Expo kicked off Friday and is still going on today from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. There are 180 vendor tables, live demonstrations, kids' ...