Just adding a little update. Ran about 25 miles of woods road yesterday looking at traps in the snow. Saw only one bobcat track the whole way. Three separate fresh cougar tracks. I am pretty sure I scared one off the road. Never saw a deer track the entire distance. Did see the tracks of a small herd of elk.
Picked up 6 more civets. 2 however were chewed on. Not bad but enough to foul them up for taxidermy.
Permit area and my permit runs out last day of the year, so things are winding down on this trapline. Kind of nervous about setting in the snow in another area with people out over New Years.
Saw two different vehicles in the permit area that I know damn good and well they were hunting. No seasons are open there except of course cougar. Grouse too, I guess. Not much in there IMO. Maybe they will get one of those cougars.