Beautiful fur! Thanks for the update/ride along.

How much longer you have to chase?

Wolves are still good. It's gotten warm the last couple days so not much longer now. I have shot good wolves onto early May but that's not too common to see

For sure the white foot is a local gene. I've seen it in certain areas with lynx, wolverine and marten. I have an old picture of a marten from the delta with a thin white tip of one foot. The only white footed marten i've seen out there to date. On the line I've trapped the past three seasons I'd say roughly 20% of the marten had at least one white foot. Black muskrats are also a regional gene thing from what I've seen

Thank you Ryan.

I did wonder, and have seen the same ID marks in populations elsewhere. There was a good discussion a long time ago about marten , and this was mentioned. Trapped4ever was a very good source in contributing to the strange markings he found in areas on some of his marten.

I always like this info. Thank you for your photos shared.

Yes same here for wolves good to about April 20. Never mind all those fur primeness charts - auction grader proved that a few times. And you can get a poor one anytime.

Getting there. Last taxidermy wolverine will be done today. Just have to do the ears and flesh it. I skinned and finished 15 wolverine this winter. Almost done.

My goodness. Look at the varied colour tones.

I've always thought a nice one, displayed as a rug on the wall would look wonderful. With the colour of the rug around it a nice contrast to the fur. I saw a badger done that way and it looked amazing. All the tones, from the belly to the back , legs, etc, could be enjoyed, all at once.

Well done, Ryan.

Second half of the wolverine before I sold them last week. Bears are out now. Got me thinking

Ryan that's a wide variety of colors of some well handled fur congratulations to you for a successful season !

I wish you well on the spring grizzly bears !

Allan

Ryan,great job.

Earlier in the day I hauled out 52 2x4 and 12 bundles of shingles. As I travelled along I told myself that today I wouldn’t get distracted and I’d just get the load out in one piece. Seriously less than a minute later I crossed these tracks and immediately unhooked my sled and took off after it. Once again I was able to catch sight of it going up the bank without a chance to shoot. I don’t remember any year where I seen so many and got so few shooting chances. I took a picture on the way back to town later on.

40 8 footers and 12 bundles of shingles filled the tub. 12 footers in top. It was all good on the main trail but once it got softer I had to move a few bundles to the back of the sled to get it nice and balanced. Other than that I had to trouble

I might have missed it, but it looks like you’re framing a shack.

Did a few hundred km looking for bear. Lots of small ones but no big tracks yet. Lots of wolves though. I called out the last one while skinning the second one.

Ryan the moose will thank you for thinning out those wolves !