Alaska predator control

Ray

Ray

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The link will take you to a posting on an Alaska outdoors forum. The poster lives in Bethel, AK and actively traps fox on the tundra. He also hunts ducks in the spring on the federal lands under the rural subsistance rules. Sometimes his spring posts are frustrating to the rest of us urbanites, but it is interesting all the same. He does take some beautiful birds at that time when they are in full breading plumage. In September all the ducks are brown and his season is pretty much over in 30 days even though the regulations say mid December. It is all frozen by October.

The region he lives in is the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and the majority of the area is a federal refuge where a large percentage of the west coast waterfowl summer. Even though most of his trapping is within a few miles of town he and others are having an effect on the predation aspects of water fowl population assistance. Now if they would go after the mink as hard as the fox there might be some bird population changes rather than the status quo. The Bethel Mink Festival in early winter has been having a hard time of it due to poor snow conditions preventing travel on the tundra at that time of year.

EDIT ADDED - How about this thread code it has some extra stuff to it like a referrer id.

http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php?t=24260&referrerid=3778
 
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http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/

it is the Alaska Outdoors Directory forums at the above link. And it is under the Alaska Trapping and Predator Hunting forum. The poster's screen name is Kusko, which is the same name he uses on the refuge under the Alaska Flyway.


Here is a photo of most of the 2007/2008 take minus some that were sold early in the season.
kusko 2008 foxseasonrylee.jpg


Here is his daughter with one of the snare caught fox from 2007. In the background you can see the town of Bethel just a few hundred yards away.
kusko 2008 ryleedeadfox2007.jpg

I guess they changed their code at some point, because I could read the posts and review imbedded photos just not attached photos prior to joining two years ago.

It is easy to register through an automated email system, and they have forums for Colorado and Montana.
 
I regsitered, logged on, pulled up the FORUM's page but I'm darned if I can find anytihg on the forums page that says a thing about trapping or predators.....Hunting, and Waterfowl Hunting, Small game hunting, Bow Hunting, Muzzle loading, but I don't see anything about predators or trapping....

What the heck am I doing wrong?

Steve
 
I don't know if you are missing anything since the site appears to be down. But there is a Alaska Trapping and Predator Hunting forum on there. I have to get going so I will check out some stuff later on tonight.
 
one of the captains at the lodge i work at in the summers trapped 275+ pine martin this year by sitka! It blew my mind!

Give that guy mad props!
 
It appears to be working again. Maybe posting the thread display code does not work for actual linking on their system. It works on other forums but maybe not there.

Here is a screen shot of the hunting section of the forums. Under the small game forum is the trapping forum right above the water fowling forum.

AODscreen1.jpg

So should I be looking for postings from Thor Nottus on here?
 
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