Trappers meet their quarry at nature’s elemental level during the bleakest months of the year. The winter growth of luxuriant fur, provoked by an evolutionary response to a weather cycle that long ...

The wooden box outside the Department of Natural Resources office is piled high with frozen carcasses. They are red and lean and sinewy. In the January dusk, they look as if they could be furless ...

WOODWORTH -- For almost a century Louisiana trappers have struggled to make ends meet during drops in the fur market. The price they can command for pelts still fluctuates, but today's coastal ...