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

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Rendering Raccoon Fat & Uses

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Another great way to utilize more of your catch is to render down the fat. In this video I show you how it's done and a few of the great uses of rendered fat.

SVGZ Graphic: Physiographic divisions of NY
Map: Severence Hill Trail
Map: Lamoka Lake
Map: Chautauqua Lake Fish and Wildlife Mangement Areas
Thematic Map: Albany City Wards 2024
Map: Lester Flow

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!