trapper
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Instead, within approximately four hours, a licensed trapper arrived, safely captured the animal and removed it from the community.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
First, I had raccoons, which we extracted with help from a trapper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Even a black-and-white, near-silent slapstick comedy about a 19th century trapper battling beavers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
He says an old trapper there taught him the Indigenous method of making buckskin leather by soaking hides in animal brains and tanning them using wood smoke.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
At one end a trapper skinned his raccoons and at the other Florence scraped dirt from a mound of sweet potatoes.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
“In the less-resourced areas, people aren’t hiring trappers as much as in the wealthier areas,” said Christine Wilkinson, lead author of the study and a recent postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
The other is the sea otter, which was wiped out of Oregon waters by fur trappers more than 100 years ago.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
The proposal cites people who watch, photograph or listen to wildlife as examples of potential new board members, joining hunters, fishermen and trappers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Wolverine populations in southwestern Canada plummeted by more than 40% over the past two decades due to overharvesting by trappers, which could have effects across the U.S. border, scientists said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023
George’s ancestors had lived in this part of the world for millennia and had been the ones to greet the first French trappers who ventured north from Montreal in the 1600s.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
