PIERSON, Mich. -- High demand for fur in Asian markets means one thing for Michigan trappers — muskrat love. Asian countries are buying raw material for fur garments from Michigan trappers, and ...

The number of muskrats trapped for their fur in Minnesota dropped last year to about 19,000, the lowest on record. Biologists say a number of factors are at play in that drop, including fewer trappers ...

PIERSON, Mich. (AP) -- Muskrats in Michigan residents' backyards and on golf courses can be a nuisance, but the furry, waddling critters -- or at least their pelts -- are highly prized in China and ...

Fur takers in Ohio can begin hunting and trapping animals such as raccoons and weasels this weekend.The state's Department of Natural Resources says hunters and trappers are expected to encounter good ...

“Over the next few weeks you will see signs at the pond warning that trapping is in progress. We are trapping muskrats which have proliferated over the past few years. These rodents burrow under the ...

Trappers meet their quarry at nature’s elemental level during the bleakest months of the year. The winter growth of luxuriant fur, provoked by an evolutionary response to a weather cycle that long ...

Shin-deep in the icy muck, Tim Evans reaches a gloved hand into a watery hole and fishes out his treasure: a sodden mass of dark hair and claws, with four tiny, yellow incisors, a long rubbery tail, ...

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 ...