Used traps are prepared before the start of the trapping season.
As the trapping season spans the cold months, the most common hazards are frostbite and hypothermia.
The two returned to Salem when the trapping season was over.
"Not too late to ready myself for the next trapping season, if I work fast," said the woodsman.
Although the agency said complaints about the animals have increased, it could not connect that with the cancellation of the trapping season last year.
In 1924, the last trapping season for fishers was allowed.
"I don't know if we have enough suitable habitat to support a trapping season."
Though there was no public trapping season last year, in 1998 anti-trappers held the rights to 36 sites, or 47,000 acres.
Their trapping season was just ending, and they planned to go "outside" in a few days.
He extended credit to his passengers until the end of each trapping season.