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Published December 02, 2012, 12:00 AM

Photo gallery: Wolf trapping


Scott Honer of Fredenberg Township hauls a frozen beaver carcass to an area where he’s placing bait to attract a gray wolf. Honer is trapping near the Caribou Trail north of Lutsen in Minnesota’s first managed wolf hunting and trapping season. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)

  • Scott Honer of Fredenberg Township hauls a frozen beaver carcass to an area where he’s placing bait to attract a gray wolf. Honer is trapping near the Caribou Trail north of Lutsen in Minnesota’s first managed wolf hunting and trapping season. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Allen Edberg of Fredenberg Township holds what’s left of a beaver carcass at a baiting site near a wolf snare a few miles north of Lutsen on Tuesday. The carcass had been pecked clean by ravens, but no wolves had visited the bait. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Allen Edberg of Fredenberg Township demonstrates how a snare works. A snare is essentially a noose of wire cable. Once the wolf walks through it and tries to continue moving ahead, the wire tightens around the animal’s neck, causing asphyxiation and death. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Scott Honer uses an ATV to drive along a narrow trail through the forest to check his wolf snares Tuesday afternoon a few miles north of Lutsen. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Allen Edberg of Fredenberg Township inspects one of the sites where he is baiting to attract a gray wolf north of Lutsen. The bait —carcasses of beavers and other animals —had been picked clean by ravens. He refreshed the bait with a frozen beaver carcass (at left). (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
  • Scott Honer of Fredenberg Township rides ATV as he checks his trap line while wolf trapping north of Lutsen on Tuesday. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)