Trapping 📍

New York State is one of the nation’s top producers of wild furs for the commercial fur trade. New York City remains a center for the production and marketing of fur garments.

Trapping provides important benefits to New Yorkers including: the control of nuisance damage, economic benefits to trappers and people involved in the fur industry, and recreation to trappers.

The 14 species of furbearing animals in New York are abundant and their populations are secure. DEC regulates trapping seasons to ensure the continued security of New York’s furbearer populations.

http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/355.html

📽️ Videos
SVGZ Graphic: Relatively few New York residents live above 1,000 ft

Love, musk is in the air for New England furbearers! — Furbearer Conservation

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Love, musk is in the air for New England furbearers! — Furbearer Conservation

While Valentine’s Day has come and gone for folks in the Northeast, its safe to say romance, and in this case, gland secretions, still linger in the March air for many of the region’s wildlife populations.

Being in the wildlife control industry, mid-February tends to signal a spike in my phone usage and “windshield time” with calls of pungent odors in the crisp night air and depredation issues on livestock with Tasmanian-devil-like pandemonium. It spells an important milestone time of year for two prominent members of the mammalian super-family Musteloidea - specifically the striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) and the American mink (Neovison vison). Why the sudden spike in activity during this time of year? Breeding season of course!

Trap Check #10 2019 Skinning demo

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Well were back out on the line and are still picking up the coyotes! Come along and watch how I skin my coyotes

Nice video of him skinning his 'yote. He had a pretty good season. Of course, don't watch video #11, where he gets kind of skunked potentially for the rest of the season by the ice storm that not only hit New York but also the other side of the lake in Ontario.

Map: North Lake Reservior

Rat Creek

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The valley that Empire State Plaza crosses is called the Rutten Kill Valley, which is Dutch for “Rat Creek”.

While some people say it refers to urban, common, brown rats that are an invasive species from Europe, “Rat Creek” most likely refers to muskrats, the common furbearer that burrows along the bank of creeks and are commonly trapped and skinned for their pelts in our state.

Map: Severence Hill Trail