Best Books you have read.

[trappincoyotes39]

Looking online and thinking of trapping books adding to my collection so what are the best books you have in your collection in reguards to trapping/ biology info? Coyotes, coons, etc.

JUst ordered a copy of Bodas coyotes trapping that is one I never had in my collection found a new copy.

[buckfreak]

The clever coyote is a good one that is out of print. Hard to find but worth the effort.IMO.

[trappnman]

I get teased by Chris, but I DO like Bodas Troubleshooting book on coyotes- it ask and at least attempts to answer, many questions, scenarios not touched on in other books.

Faler's mink book is the definitive book on mnk, IMO

[trappincoyotes39]

Yes stanley P young. The newer version and has many of Youngs writings in it, is very good. It is called Coyotes: Biology, Behavior and Management by Bekoff.

Anyone else?

[RdFx]

The Coyote
(Defiant Songdog of the West)
By Francois Leydet

[Stef]

The last issue of Playboy

[trappincoyotes39]

Stef all about the articals right??? LOL.

[RdFx]

Hmmm might be sight attractors that Stef is talking about, you know like bones do to canines... ;>)

[ChrisM]

Oh man Steve! I told you never to admit that publicly! hehehe

[foxman]

leggetts fox trapping methods

[slik1]

og's hoofbeats of a wolfer. Lots of info, if ya can sift through it all

[trappincoyotes39]

Yeh have hoofbeats,leggets and others. I read Ray Alcorns good book still have to purchase for myself.

Thanks!

[mmwb (Andrew Parker)]

Wild West Bobcats-- Bill Ilchik

[stickbowhntr]

I liked the Red Fox in Iowa...

[musher]

"Life and Sport on the North Shore" by Napoleon A. Comeau.

[Rally Hess]

Adjustment of Leghold Traps by Charlie Dobbins. Really got me to thinking about the mechanics of traps and physical atributes of animals.
If your a bird Hunter, Mostly Tailfeathers by Gene Hill.

[mustelameister]

Got a 1972 Herter's catalog I keep within arm's distance in the office. Brings back fond memories.

Favorite book: The Wise One by Frank Conibear and J. L. Blundell. Copyright 1949, the one I have is fourth printing, Sep 1959. An excellent read for any water trapper that pursues beaver, otter and muskrat. Also helps to explain why 'rat huts are devoid of their builders within 30 yards of any opening through the ice showing signs of otter entry.

[crittergetter100]

slim pedersons books are really good books. also trapping 101 by del kramer is good also.

[Cal Taylor]

TC, a really good read is "Alaska's Wolf man". Not really pertaining to coyotes or biology but an entertaining read.

As far as coyotes that hasn't been mentioned is "Coyotes: Predators and Survivors" by Cadieux

[FWS]

Not a book, but if you can get access to the biological databases and scientific journals online you'll be reading for years.

Years ago, before the internet as we know it, I spent a lot of time in a university library that had the 2nd largest collection of scientific journals, books and documents in the Western U.S. And it was open pretty much 24/7.

They had the journals bound by year and I'd read through the entire collection of things like the Journal of Wildlife Management, from it's first issue in 1937 and on through to the current issues. Didn't read every article obviously but it sure was a Hell of a lot of them.



Did the same thing with Congressional hearings on multiple issues, and govt. reports on hot bed issues like ESA, marine mammals, CITES, fisheries, etc, etc. Lot's of stuff from foreign sources too.

One of the things that always struck me was how often the spine would crack on whichever journal or book I was reading, since I was obviously the first to have actually bothered to read it.

What was kinda cool is that one of the dept. chairs was a friend and if he requested a book not in the collection the library would buy one. So he told me to add whatever I wanted to his list.