Growing up, in northeast Ohio in the early 1970s, trapping was a huge part of what my father and I did every Fall. And while we didn’t specifically target muskrats, they were our bread and butter. Why ...

On the rocky banks of the Clearwater River, David Busta uses a clamp to carefully compress the springs of a steel trap, a mass of coils and bars that's not unlike the traps used in Idaho for centuries ...