Woodland & mustelids

This page gathers all 11 woodland and mustelid furbearer profiles in one grid - raccoon and opossum at the easy end, skunks, weasels, marten and ringtail in the middle, and badger, fisher and wolverine at the hard end. It is the most varied group on the trapline: farm-country regulars share space with deep-forest specialists that need real winter country. That variety is the appeal - a beginner can start with dog-proof raccoon sets the same season a veteran runs elevated marten poles. The trade-off is that difficulty and legality swing hard between species: opossum are open and simple almost everywhere, while fisher, marten and especially wolverine are quota-managed or fully closed across much of their range. Each card shows what the animal gives and the effort it takes.