The Truth About Trapping: An Honest Look at a Controversial Topic

Is fur trapping good or bad, or in between? Types of traps, humaneness, livestock protection, impact on wildlife populations & disease, trapper education, laws, & monitoring, & non-target captures are discussed here. This honest post profiles of 2 trappers and 1 animal rights activist, and reviews research studies. It's complicated & you need to decide for yourself what the "truth" is before embracing it as supplemental income for your homestead, or before embarking on an anti-trapping campaign

An honest attempt to determine the pros and cons of fur trapping. A review of research and input from trappers and an animal rights activist, help you decide for yourself what is the truth about trapping.

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How to Get Started Tracking Animals: 16 Tips & Resources

Reconnect with nature by reviving the ancient art of wildlife tracking. These tips & resources teach how to get started tracking animals by breaking a daunting task into manageable chunks & set you on the road to expertise. Includes reviews of my favorite tracking books.

These tips & resources will help you get started tracking wildlife by breaking a daunting task into manageable chunks & set you on the road to expertise. Includes reviews of my favorite tracking books.

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Poultry Predator Identification: A Guide to Tracks and Sign

Poultry Predator Identification

Here’s a guide to poultry predator identification that covers tracks, scat, feeding sign, and other behavior, to help you identify threats to your chickens and other livestock. This is largely based on my own experience tracking and camera trapping, and designed to educate and inspire responsible livestock protection that will allow coexistence with predators.

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Porcupine Tracks and Sign

Porcupine tracks and sign

Learn to recognize porcupine tracks and sign, including a variety of feeding signs, dens, and scat of this large, prickly,herbivorous rodent.

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Quabbin Wildlife Tracking Program 1/10/2015

Quabbin wildlife tracking programs

Moose, deer, bobcat, porcupine, and grouse were among the animals we found evidence of, in our January 10, 2015 Quabbin wildlife tracking program.

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Hunting Ethically with Mind, Body and Soul: An Interview

Hunting Ethically

Hunting ethically for food, for wildlife management, and to understand one’s place within Nature: A hunter explains. Read his views, and weigh in on the discussion!

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Tracking Red Fox in Winter

Tracking Red Fox in Winter

Learning to interpret tracks and sign of wildlife helps you appreciate them as sentient being struggling for survival, a first step in learning to coexist with them. Tracking Red Fox in Winter is an introduction to red fox tracks, sign, behavior, winter adaptations, and conflicts with humans.

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10 Myths About Wild Predators

10 Myths About Wild Predators (with photos from my trail cam)

It’s time to debunk these myths about wild predators, and learn to live with them. Appreciate their beauty with some of my best trail cam photos.

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10 Shrubs for a Wildlife-Friendly, Edible Landscape

10 Shrubs for a Wildlife-Friendly, Edible Landscape

Want to transform your backyard to a food producing garden that also attracts wildlife? Choosing from these 10 shrubs for a wildlife-friendly, edible landscape, would be a great start! Wildlife value and edible parts of each shrub are described.

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