This was especially true of the first ranches on the Great Plains, of cattle trails, of mining camps, logging camps, and of trapping expeditions.
The trappingarea was a wide, grassy meadow, three and a half miles south of the northern end of the mesa.
In order to check on the accuracy of the above calculations, an estimate of density was made for each species on the basis of trapping data.
Nights of high trapping success usually were associated with days having solar insolation below the average.
This amplification is reflected in the wide range between low and high limits of the densities for each species within the trapping grid.
This station was approximately one mile south of the trapping grid; isolation at this site would have been essentially the same as that received by the trapping grid.
Approximately seven man-hours were required to analyze each trapping unit, and 112 man-hours to analyze the entire grid.
Photograph of microclimatic station at the Drainage Site, in the bottom of a shallow drainage at trapping station M4d of the grid south of Far View Ruins.
The man was relating incidents of the trapping to his wife, who nodded understandingly.
Her husband's trapping now, I believe, but of course I'll take you up there.
The winter had been long but the hunting and trapping had kept him busy enough.
The animals had been well-fed on the previous night and the trip around the trapping line had not been a hard one.
With the growth of population it is probable that a very considerable amount of trapping was carried on in early days, and their numbers greatly reduced.
As for meself," he added, "it's verra curious but I never even saw a black fox in all me trapping experience.
The author of this work has been engaged for many years intrapping and collecting furs and has come into close contact with many of the leading trappers of the country.
Now a word about trapping those cute little coyotes, writes a California trapper.
On streams with such wide variances in depth, trapping is almost impossible.
I have caught almost all kinds of fur-bearing animals this side of the Rockies, and I don't know it all yet, but I do know the nature of all the game I trapped, and that we must all know to make trapping pay.
When the fall trapping is over, the traps will be somewhat rusty again.
It is a good idea to cover up your trap, even when trapping for muskrat, for with continued trapping they become sly and learn to shun traps.
By that I mean that when you are trapping for the shrewdest game, such as fox, mink, otter, wolves, etc.
The thief also knows that if he is discovered, his trapping grounds will be watched.
Ice chisels are indispensable to any one trapping beaver, otter or mink, and no Indian would consider his outfit complete without one.
This shows that good dens should be looked up by trappers, if in new trapping grounds to them, before the season opens.
I may say in conclusion about this particular sized trap that on that trapping tour I only lost one mink, I found the trap sprung with a single toe in the jaws.
It is true, however, that on low land and along sinks and damp places there is good trapping early in the season, but as a rule animals hunt higher and drier sections before the extreme cold weather comes.
When trapping at dens the bait should be stuck on a short stick, so as to keep it off the ground, and placed back in the den, beyond the trap some eighteen inches or two feet.
I will give an excellent method of trapping animals on land writes an Ohio trapper.
We have heard men say that they wanted no dog on the trap line with them, and that they didn't believe that any one who did want a dog on the trap line knew but very little about trapping at the best.
Not a hunting dog in a strict sense of the word, yet most important in that connection, is the sledge dog, in transportation of hunters and their outfits to and from the hunting and trapping scenes.
Trapping a Wetiko] In the days of Noah, (or near them at least) there were a large party of Indians collected together for mutual safety.
Thus the beaver, the most valuable of the furred animals, has been nearly destroyed in Upper and Lower Canada, and much diminished in the districts beyond the Rocky Mountains, which are traversed by trapping parties from the States.
The young are left untouched, and thus the breed remains uninjured, while in trapping both old and young equally fall victims.
Thus the winter passed, one of storm and cold, but the trapping was wonderful, and each boy grew in a remarkable manner in strength, endurance, and skill.
They now undertook a new work in order to facilitate their trapping operations.
They did not resume their trapping until October came, as they knew that the furs would not be in good condition until then.
It proved to be a cold but not rainy autumn, a circumstance that favored greatly their trapping operations.
The beaver stream, and another that they found a little later, ran far back into the mountains, and the best trapping place was about ten miles away.
They found another rock cavity, which they fitted up like the first in anticipation of an auspicious trapping season.
His money was about all gone, and he was anxious for me to go to the mountains with him on a trapping expedition the coming winter, saying he was tired of laying around doing nothing but drink whiskey.
The following day we pulled for the trapping region, by way of the old San Jose mission, and from there to the old mission of San Gabriel, thence across the Mojave desert.
Trapping had never been done in that region, and these men knew that this was because of hostile Indians there.
Uncle Kit Carson pulled out for home and when he was starting he said he had done his lasttrapping and he was going home to his sheep ranch and take things easy.
While here, Jim Beckwith fell in with a man by the name of Reese, who said he had trapped on the headwaters of Snake river the winter previous, and that trapping was good there.
They went to the head of Snake river, and I afterwards learned that they trapped there all winter with splendid success, but trapping being so good they stayed too late in the spring.
On my return to Bent's Fort I found John West, who had been trapping in the Windriver mountains in company with two other men I did not know.
CAMP LIFE IN THE WOODS, and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap-making.
After arriving they moved about from one beautiful spot to another, setting their beaver traps in the streams, and remaining a longer or shorter time at each place, according to their success in trapping and hunting.
I feel rather a cur fortrapping her, but you were in a tight hole, Wigan, and I had to get you out.
He knew where he was likely to find him, but meeting the man and woman unexpectedly, he was frightened into trapping us.
Fitzpatrick and Hatcher, and old Bill Williams, with their bands, well-known leaders of trapping parties, soon arrived.
Here they found several trappingbands already arrived; and a trader from the Uintah country, with store of powder, lead, and tobacco, prepared to ease them of their hardly earned peltries.
Whilst on this stream, the trapping party lost several animals from the want of pasture, and many more from the predatory attacks of the cunning Indians.
In 1809, with a companion named John Potts, he was trapping beavers near the Three Forks of the Missouri.
This was the real beginning of the trapping industry, which for nearly two generations was the dominating influence of the West.
We will make as far as the old trapping shack you abandoned two winters ago over on Moose Creek.
They were in the heart of the great trapping country.
They hunted when the weather admitted, and accompanied Jasper Williams on trapping jaunts that covered several days.
It is even possible that, if we find the stories true, we may spend most of the winter there trapping and hunting.
That such factors vary from year to year is indicated by the changing ratio of summer-born young to other opossums in each of the three winter seasons when trapping was carried on.
Those caught well within the trapping area were much more likely to be recaptured.
Because opossums are nocturnal and rarely seen in the course of their regular activities, the present study is based mainly on information gained by live-trapping them.
Each of twenty-two opossums was caught at only two differenttrapping stations.
Each of five opossums was taken at 4 different trapping stations, and for each of these a record of six different movements was available.
No second litters were marked because trappingwas not continued into June and July when second litters are being carried by females.
Each of thirteen opossums was caught at five or more trapping stations.
Live-trapping was begun in October 1949 by Fitch with a line of about a dozen traps.
A camp was maintained near the edge of the Woods, and by trapping and hunting every effort was made to determine the mammal fauna of the preserve.
A small amount of trapping was done in the fields and along the roadsides immediately adjoining the Woods and a few records were secured from the camp house.
Cultivated fields occur throughout the region about the woods, but the only ones in which trapping was done were wheat stubble-fields.
Owing to its poor development and uncertain characteristics no intensive trappingwas done in this type of habitat.
No especial study of the mammal life of the orchard was made, and no intensive trapping was done in the habitat.
Packard for certain trappingrecords that supplemented my own, and to Professor E.
Experiments were made periodically throughout the trapping period to determine which bait was most attractive to cottontails and least attractive to birds, rodents, skunks, raccoons, and opossums.
The data obtained from live-trapping are not fully adequate because traps cannot sample, in time and space, the entire home range of an individual.
A similar situation has been shown by previous authors who have plotted the size of home range against number of captures in live-traps, where only live-trapping was used to gather data.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trapping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
