Cobwebs blanketed my face as I opened the door to the old shed and stepped inside. It had been years since I ran a serious trapline, and the inside of the shed proved it. Aside from dim sunlight ...

SACRAMENTO — California on Wednesday became the first state to ban commercial fur trapping, ending the practice nearly 200 years after animals like beavers and otters introduced the American West to ...

Veteran Catskills-area trapper Shawn Coston had his best year ever trapping bobcat this winter, finishing the season last weekend with seven to his credit – a number that the state Department of ...

There aren’t many trappers out in the backcountry this season. There are certainly a few diehards that trap just because they need an excuse to be out in the wilds. Additionally, there are sport ...

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, it ...

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 ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California on Wednesday became the first state to ban commercial fur trapping, ending the practice nearly 200 years after animals like beavers and otters introduced the ...

From Jedediah Smith to Kit Carson, fur trapping has been woven into California’s history for nearly 200 years. But state lawmakers in Sacramento are considering killing off the controversial industry ...

“When fur is used in a slow-fashion way, it is a relatively sustainable resource,” Vogue explains. The fashion publication explained that furriers, individuals who specialize in clothing derived from ...

In this photo taken Friday, March 16, 2018, Benjamin Lin holds up a fur coat at the B.B. Hawk showroom in San Francisco. Fur trapping would be banned in California if the Legislature passes Assembly ...