I think that's still in print. It an important work not just because of the trapping but from a historical and cultural point of view.

That is the exact story I am reading but it is not edited it was printed as he wrote it making it a tuff read but as White said some very important documentation there. I just wish it had more to say about the equipment and tactics.

BC - Call the Sitka airport gift shop ( 907 966 2553 ). The owner will mail you all four autographed Short books. Wayne is in his eighties and living in Petersburg. Great books about the earlier days of a great area ie: S.E. Alaska.
His forth book is as good as the rest, but not about Alaska.

Jeff, can I borrow this picture?

Yes you May Bonnie...Thanks for asking

YJ Thanks for the lynx pictures. There arent many down this way so anytime we get to see one, its a treat!

Oh good!!! Thank you!! I just think that's cool with his tongue peeking out...

Southpaw ..if your patiant and wait a bunch of years...you might have alot of cats some day,there were not many here when I came.
and WW that was the first one that ever stuck his toungue out at me

He was tasting that last lil bit of freedom....LOL!!

If it makes ya feel better....

Jeff, I been waiting almost 30 yrs we just don't have the habitat for them. Not the dense brush and rabbits like other places in the state I have lived and seen cats. It is frustrating they have them a bit W of Southpaw and I and over on the E side of Bristol Bay they are fairly common but here in the last 12 yrs I have seen maybe 3 sets of tracks I have really been looking this yr as our rabbits are up for us

Otterman....like here it took ALONG TIME..and we are still building (I think)..if you have eneough brush for Rabbits,I think you will eventualy have Lynx...we have them very near the coast here,and pretty thick in spots..and about as much brush as there I would imagine.

I sure hope your right it would be nice if I got to trap a few more when I am an old man. The weird thing is a long time ago when she was a kid my wifes dad caught them fairly regular so they must have migrated up the coast to you guys

I believe you will have them someday..it was the same here,when I came..I heard the old man got 29 in one check,and they used 1 1/2 in those days...and didnt have any that I seen or even tracks...and I believe you are right,they do migrate when the rabbits crash,and of course they eat there own young when starving so that adds to the loss,and our populations of rabbits can be depressed for years because of spring floods,and I bet you guys get the fall storms there on the coast,so that can be the same,we had bunnys for years,but still no Lynx then all of a sudden here they were at about the time of the last crash in the interior...just my therie anyway.
heres the catch of the day

What an ugly cat

Just kidding, had to say something different...

Acualy...it was a 3 legged red stained belly female with no tail...

Yeah, I uncropped your picture and saw that!

Now one of us is lying ..because that pic aint cropped,or touched in any way

You're right Jeff, this is what it would look like cropped and enhanced... lemme see ya UNCROP this...lol!!

Yup....

When I read that I heard it with a John Wayne accent.