NEAR SOLON SPRINGS - Jarid Rankila walked gingerly onto the frozen beaver pond, thumping the ice ahead of him with his ice spud - a long-handled spear-like chisel. If the thunk was solid, he would ...

Larry Kline stood knee-deep in a Virginia creek, laying a trap. He lowered the trap's spring-loaded metal frame -- something like a large mousetrap -- into the current. If a river otter swam through, ...

It took biologists decades to repopulate the state with enough river otters to support this winter’s inaugural trapping season. But trappers in 23 counties triggered the close of the season in a lot ...

The roster of animals that may be trapped legally in Ohio isn’t minuscule, though it has yet to include bobcats despite some clamor to include them. Trapping season, which opens Nov. 10 for sundry ...