What a trapper learned about wildlife after 60 years in the Maine woods

What a trapper learned about wildlife after 60 years in the Maine woods

My father has spent nearly six decades studying wildlife habitat and behavior to successfully trap furbearers in Maine. Over the years he has learned that animals are often the first sign that something in the landscape has changed. He dug a pond near the house years ago because he has always been partial to trapping muskrat, beaver and otter. At first those animals frequented the pond. But over time he began noticing fewer muskrat not only ther…