For Trappers, the Land Is Their Office—wildfires Have Them Bracing for the Worst

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August 23, 2025

For Trappers, the Land Is Their Office—wildfires Have Them Bracing for the Worst

Trapper Ken Cowles holds a lynx pelt along with a trap near his home in Mulhurst Bay Alberta, Friday Dec. 21, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Some trappers are expecting “catastrophic losses” to their food and financial security this year, as Canada’s second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up in flames.

The latest figures from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest fires have torn through 78,000 square kilometres of land, with most of the fires on the Prairies.

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