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Portlander (the West Coast kind) Shaun Deller taught a workshop on running an urban trap line by bike, and he shares some of the finer points of nutria-trapping in this video.
Wed, Feb 24 2010 at 1:52 PM
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Earlier today I wrote about trapper who lives out in the middle of nowhere in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, so when I came across a story about bike riding trappers I knew I just had to write it up.
Shaun Deller taught a workshop out in the other Portland (Oregon) on trapping by bicycle in which participants caught nutria, a large invasive rodent that is harvested for its meat and skin. Check out their video:
The trap that Deller uses seems to do its work quickly, at least in the case of the nutria they caught that day. Fast is good (maybe I should say better); slow and lingering is bad.
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Being into the invasive species I have to admit the conibear to be my favourite, no land trapping of course, the muskrat is being cought and dies within a minute.
I graduated high school with a guy who was killed, decapitated by a trap line, just like this one, maybe no ones swimming or jetskiing this time of year, but trap lines shoud be illegal