For this newly arrived Alaskan, trapping makes for a more meaningful life

Cory Rausch emptied a garbage bag of pig guts onto the snow, followed by bristly skin and a head. They’re from a butcher friend, parts that would otherwise go to waste.

“What this does is, it attracts the birds, and then the birds attract the coyotes and the fox,” he explained.

Rausch was running a trapline near his home in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. He pointed to a clump of trees near the pile of bait…

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