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Other Activities => Trapping => Topic started by: HUNTNORTHWEST on September 23, 2024, 01:32:09 PM

Title: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: HUNTNORTHWEST on September 23, 2024, 01:32:09 PM: Never seen anything like this. Im not a trapper. Why is there cleaning brushes attached to the tree? and alligator clips?

Please Chime in .
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: Keith494 on September 23, 2024, 01:34:23 PM: Not a legal one anyway, unless it’s some sort of hair snare
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: HUNTNORTHWEST on September 23, 2024, 01:38:03 PM: It has obviously been abandoned. The bait was just left to bones hanging from a wire.

Bigfoot trap?
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: Birdgetter on September 23, 2024, 01:44:09 PM: Looks like a wolverine monitoring station to me. The brushes and screws collect hair for DNA testing.
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: CP on September 23, 2024, 02:17:49 PM: Quote from: Birdgetter on September 23, 2024, 01:44:09 PM
Looks like a wolverine monitoring station to me. The brushes and screws collect hair for DNA testing.

:yeah:

That's exactly what that is. I spoke to a guy a few years back that was collecting wolverine DNA under a grant associated with the construction of the wildlife bridge across I90 near exit 61. Your tax dollars at work.
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: Tbar on September 23, 2024, 02:29:25 PM: Quote from: Birdgetter on September 23, 2024, 01:44:09 PM
Looks like a wolverine monitoring station to me. The brushes and screws collect hair for DNA testing.
:yeah:
Part of a carnivore study. Should have had some tips from a cleaning rod or two as well.
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: Rainier10 on September 23, 2024, 03:52:33 PM: :yeah: Wolverine hair trap
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: HUNTNORTHWEST on September 23, 2024, 04:15:43 PM: Thanks for the feedback. I can stop speculating.
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: Feathernfurr on September 23, 2024, 06:22:51 PM: Wolverine… right. I think yall mean Big Sas!
Title: Re: Who's Trap is this?
Post by: JakeLand on September 24, 2024, 04:51:01 AM: Quote from: Birdgetter on September 23, 2024, 01:44:09 PM
Looks like a wolverine monitoring station to me. The brushes and screws collect hair for DNA testing.
bingo