Word: muskrats
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...Russians have no special tricks for keeping warm. Every man wears a shapka, a fur (muskrat, rabbit, squirrel, fox or Persian lamb) hat with ear flaps. Everyone wears warm boots; the best are the felt valenki favored by villagers. People who work outdoors wear, of course. Soviet Union suits. After a long spell in the cold, they raise spirits with a stiff jolt of vodka and a hunk of fatback...
...even there the great reptiles reportedly are gobbling up such valuable fur-bearing animals as muskrat and nutria -not to mention possum, raccoon, frogs, fish and whatever else they can lay their jaws on. A better solution, state officials say, would be to reopen a limited hunting season on the gators. "We never agreed with the Federal Government that the alligator was an endangered species," says Joanen. "We have 1 million to 1.5 million of them here now. And the number is growing...
...deceptive girl, mouthing her piety about "the secret of seeing" being "the pearl of great price," modestly insisting, "I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood." Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup, no graceful inscriber of 365 inspirational prose poems. As she guides the attention to a muskrat, to a monarch butterfly, a heron or a coot, Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game...
...trapping trips he makes with his father; flying their small plane up to their small cabins north of Fairbanks; he was especially glad to talk about his experiences to a bunch of "outsiders" who were visibly impressed by his knowledge of the relative values of wolf, beaver, and muskrat pelts, and the relative merits of caribou and moose meat...
...DELIA arrived in Alaska in 1948, worked for a while in Ketchikan, then drifted over to the Skwentna region, where he built a cabin and started trapping. Skwentna is good mixed-fur country-mink, marten, lynx, wolf, otter, beaver, muskrat. Fifteen years ago, trappers got good money for these pelts. Minks, for example, brought about $36 each; today Joe Delia is lucky to average $10. Lynxes, on the other hand, have improved. You can get $60 apiece-when you find one: the reproduction cycle has made this animal scarce...