It's a bit of a stretch, but you could say this place we call home is here because 19th-century English dandies liked really soft hats. Sure, it's certain the Pacific Northwest would have been settled ...

The wooden box outside the Department of Natural Resources office is piled high with frozen carcasses. They are red and lean and sinewy. In the January dusk, they look as if they could be furless ...

The fur industry has a long history in the state of Missouri. While it looks different these days, it’s still around, and trappers at the annual Missouri fur auction want to make sure they're ...

Trapping is an age-old enterprise. Who really knows when the first trapper came on the scene? Likely it was some dude who needed fur to keep him warm, but couldn’t get quite close enough to that saber ...

The annual Missouri Trappers 2022 Fur Auctions was held Saturday in Montgomery City, but the market has declined and the event was smaller than usual. About 40 trapper lots and 14 buyers came to the ...

Larry Kline stood knee-deep in a Virginia creek, laying a trap. He lowered the trap's spring-loaded metal frame -- something like a large mousetrap -- into the current. If a river otter swam through, ...

CENTURIES BEFORE Theodore Roosevelt and the birth of America’s conservation movement at the turn of the 20th century, beaver populations were nearly trapped into oblivion thanks to Europe’s need for a ...

On a cold and sunny winter day on Dec. 30, six local residents gathered at a rural road near the Lancaster-Berks line and unloaded a wooden canoe, a faux fur and an old jug of the kind that once held ...

Ben Trumblee travels the U.S. selling some highly unusual items. Some of his most popular products include purses made from invasive toads and the cleaned bone of a raccoon penis, which his customers ...