We (Dale and Shane Barks) have spent most of our lives on a remote northern trapline. We were filmed for Discovery Channel's "Sons of Winter," which followed our family around on our trapline.
Dale has an honours degree in Environmental Biology; a field which offers unique insight into the animal behaviour and ecosystem mechanics that we come into contact with every day while trapping. He has been enjoying life trapping and found employment using his backwoods experience to monitor threatened woodland caribou populations. He is currently completing his masters degree studying Chronic Wasting Disease in deep-boreal whitetails.
Shane is building his construction experience during the summers and guides for the family outfitting business (black bear and whitetail deer) in the spring and summer. He has built Bear Essential Wilderness Adventures (literally, including the hunting lodge) over the past few years and is kind enough to employ his poor secondary-education-seeking brothers.
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Beavertail was considered a real delicacy during the mountain man and fur trade era trappers and Old West outdoorsmen of many stripes. But I think this was primarily based on the appetites and physical conditions of those consuming it. For 300 years the peoples of European descent their staple foods were jerky and hardtack.... Jerky has very little fat in it animal fat tends to go rancid and get moldy relatively quickly. As some may not know, hardtack is a type of dense biscuit (British English) or cracker (American English) made from flour, water, and sometimes salt. Interestingly, it cantains no fats or oils of any kind fsince hardtack molds and goes bad quickly if it has oils in it whereas without oils and stored properly has been known to remain fully edible for 25 years. For over 300 years, explorers , traders and others not in cities or on farms depended on hardtack and jerky as their primary foods.. This was true for soldiers of the Napolonic Wars across Europe, likewise for American soldiers between the war for Independence through the Civil War. Poneers on wagontrains and cowboys working the cattle drives depended on hardtack as their main source of calories. Simply getting enough calories was a problem even for farmers and city dwellers, but especially so for all the other previously mentioned groups. Since animal fat is the most concentrated form of calories, very hungry prople often crave fats and oils. I once heard a lecture given by a climber who was a lone survivor of an expedition climbing Mt Everest. They were hit by extended storms early on, that left them stranded i n place, freezing to death, unable to go up or back down to safety. He confessed to getting into the food stores early on and stealing all the tins of lard. He believed the extra calories he got from the lard saved his life, giving his body fuel to stay warm and strength to endure while the other members, basically all died from fatigue and cold. When you're freezing to death and lacking calories to burn, he said pure lard tastes better than any other foods be they meats or sweets... Hence the historic attraction for eating fatty beaver tails.
What do aniseed do
Put boxes up in air
Damn good attitude
Well,...just goes to show ya, that fox just paid the ultimate price for stealing, darn, n, probably a full belly to boot, thx for bringing us along, shakyjake out.
Have you ever tried just regular old Vicks vapor rub the smell of Vicks mentholateum should drive them wild!
Hi, just found your channel, really enjoy the content.Will you be putting out any trapping videos this season?
Great cabin
Everything likes beaver 😂😂😂
Set leg holds in front of your traps
i dont know anything about trapping beaver but i know how to pick up beaver at the bar lol
Congratulations!!!
Thanks for sharing! I hope your still making videos!!
They're very good!!
Beaver meat.
yes ban on hunting
These pests also lowered the water level in my pond but by digging dozens of holes and bank runs in the pond dams. That means war, I have to eradicate these nuisance critters. But they avoid all my traps so far. Conibears and snares either
That chain was put there to make everybody wonder why the chain was there
More videos please!
I use beaver meat skunk essence and beaver caster
Cool find
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All hunters are sadistic psychopaths who use animals to vent their frustrations, inadequcies and anger upon a weaker being, with the exception of those who hunt for pure survival and don't sit there with a big sh*t-eating grin on their face with a dead animal. Hunters try to tell you that they do it for a love of nature or what-not, but if that's the case, they would be a wildlife photographer or hiker, and wouldn't feel the need to end every experience with the act of killing. Hunters are absolutely no diffrent than a psychopath who tortures puppies and kittens before becoming a serial killer; hunters are simply dressed better and use equipment they buy at a store to engage in their depravity. Predators don't require much management by hunting, as they control their own populations and carrying capacity through competition and prey availability. If there's a lack of deer, they'll eat something else. Predators take the sick/weak, which keeps the herds strong, while human hunters go after the biggest/best, which weakens the gene pool. If you are in a blue state, please move to a red state like I did and work hard to pass laws that ban all unnecessary hunting. Help us destroy this archaic, sadistic culture. We have made progress in banning trapping and hunting contests, let's keep up the good work. Humans are the problem and we should give nature more areas for it to be left alone instead of developing every square inch of land. Here is the latest Federal bill that is extremely important is getting passed which will ban killing contests on Federal land. Keep up the pressure!
I thought the big Marten was a Red Fox so that IS big! LOL. Could you make a team of dog booties out of all those weasels 😹😹 keep the vids comin, boys
Nice job to u & mom! Do you guys ever make three ingredient Bannock bread on the trapline? I believe it's actually 4 ingredients with the water! Other than cooking it on the stove/open fire like most trappers do, you can also mix it in a baggie on the trail and form the dough over a stick and prop the stick over the fire to make Stick Bannock. I'm looking forward to trying your bread and Stick Bannock in the Alaskan bush. Keep the vids coming! Thanks!
She looked completely underwhelmed. Lol
I.love it.
Those old boys knew what they were doing back in the day. Very nice find. You could probably get the cabin back up with a little work. It looks solid still.
Another great video! I live in great state of Michigan and we have Amish here in Michigan to, I live in central part of Michigan! We have some Amish friends there great people! Suggestion can you guys make videos of veggie garden of tips, planting, harvesting, etc if you guys have a veggie garden? I thought I heard you guys raise a veggie garden when I was watching your tv show Sons Of Winter! I have a veggie garden it’s great fun!
I loved your guys tv show Sons Of Winter I just finished watching season 1 replays it was a great tv show I wish there were more season to your guys tv show anyway welcome to our great state of Michigan, I’m born and raised in Michigan just a few hours south of the Mackinaw Bridge! Next time if you guys have more free time cross Mackinaw Bridge and go visit Mackinaw City a great tourist town in Summer time, Spring/Fall time is better if you don’t want to be in big crowds and Mackinac Island is neat tourist place to even though I haven’t been there yet! Love northern Michigan 😃✋🏻👍🏻!!
I love the little doors
Thank you. Enjoy the vids keep em coming.
Interesting cabin.
Great vid looks like you flew out from 147.
Good eye, you are correct!
checking your traps once a month?
Nope, each loop gets checked every 4-5 days as required by law.
Is there somewhere we can view this data? I’ve seen gpa data for bucks but never does I’m curious on their movement patterns
Pretty darn neat!
Great video!
Neat little trappers cabin. Whoever did that had plenty of experience.
Absolutely! It's largely a lost art nowadays, especially all of the manual work with an axe. It's sure cool running across these little pieces of history.
Great to hear from you guys! Thank you for putting out cool content. Merry Christmas to you and all your family. Have an awesome 2022.
Thank you, and merry Christmas to you as well!
Hey, how you been? Married life seems to be agreeing with you. Love these old cabins. I really regret giving up my rural property. My new long term dream is to build a cabin somewhere up north for recreational use. Merry Christmas to you guys and the family. Take care and thanks for the video.
Married life is very good! Between outfitting this fall for bears and deer, and working on my (Dale) CWD project, we've been keeping busy, which is good but has unfortunately put a dent in our KZread time! We're hoping to remedy that now. That is an excellent dream; there is something very healthy for the body and soul to have a cabin out in the wilderness! Merry Christmas to you as well!
@@BackwoodsBoys oh yep this is why you look good got ur self a good woman lol congratulations to yeah both
Good to see a new video, missed the content.
Thanks for being patient with us! :) We'll try and keep the content coming a bit more regularly!
@@BackwoodsBoys 👍
Lot of hard work. I bet the trapper was proud of it
I bet so too. I can imagine he spent a lot of freezing winter nights holed up in there, glad he spent to time to build it the way he did!
..Been a while
Thanks for taking the time to do this, i love this type of stuff. Stay safe.
We're glad you enjoy this as well; there's just something so neat about finding old trapping cabins and seeing the incredible craftsmanship that went into them. Thanks for watching!
Welcome back
Thanks!
Where u been
Unfortunately life gets in the way of KZread once in a while haha. Between a summer of forest fires (almost lost cabins and lost a large part of the trapline forest), and a fall of outfitting (bears and deer) it's been tough to find time to edit videos. Hoping to fix that now though!
@@BackwoodsBoys well you look good & glad ur back sorry 2 hear about the hard times & hope it's all geting better 4 yeah & I'll be keeping eye out for yea take care & god bless bro
Where are you guys located
I believe that you should spend your time trapping and skinning child molesters and drug dealers and rappest and just for good measure a couple of crooked politicians. That would be something to watch 😂🤣😂🤣🤣
Vanilla in white bread ???