Thinning the population and training the dogs mostly. We used to always skin them out and they would keep the pelts to sell at the end of season, but anymore they're not worth enough to justify the time skinning. We tossed them in the back of their truck and I never asked what they're doing with them this year. My brother kept a hide from a coon he trapped in that same timber last year and he's working on some moccasins/ boot covers but I don't think he's finished them.

That's awesome, thanks for sharing the pictures. I wish it was still that way, where a man could generate income from the woods. But modern society has decided that real fur that came from the natural environment and has a story behind it is somehow less ethical and fashionable than petroleum-based clothing manufactured by third-world child labor.