Just seeing this post now. The dollar bills on the ceiling and walls of the bar in one of the Florida Keys would have been my guess. I couldnt remember which Key it was tho. We made the trek a few years ago at the end of Oct, Halloween time. We wert shocked when we reached Key West just in time for Fantasy Fest. Its a ten day celebration of the kinkiest kind of sexual exhibition on earth. Where basically everything is legal from the standpoint cloths are optional. Tons of women wearing nothing but 100% body paint. The images painted on their bodies were a masterpiece of artistry. Then the queer guys wearing nothing but a thong or whatever their imagination takes them. There were nightly parades of the un-imaginable, thousands of kinky people. Seeing this display of craziness still didnt overcome my disappointment of my shark fishing charter being cancelled last minute on Marathon Key. I rented the boat only to arrive at the dock for a evening fishing trip to have the guide tell me his Yamaha engine was giving him troubles. I said you have other boats here. He said this was his only on setup for shark fishing. It really disappointed me when he told me in all of the years of shark fishing, his boat only got skunked once. He said they normally anchor under the 7 mile bridge and begin to chum. The sharks come under the bridge to the shallows to feed in the evening.
Really the only thing that can be controlled to help population is wolves. The only point to the study is to try to show the public it isn’t wolves. You can bet if it’s a DNR study it’ll show what they want it isn’t wolves. I mean if they find its ticks what are they going to do? Spray for ticks in the entire northern forests?
Personally, I would also set all sign, however I would not set lodge/bank den entrances on first sets. You are likely to catch a beaver there first and put the rest of the colony on high alert, even holing up. And the further from the den you are setting, the more likely it is you will get the older beaver. I wouldn't be shy about using castor mounds at your furthest sets. And if you find where they are logging and getting material for the feed bed, that is where I would put as many sets as sign calls for. After you have taken the adults and hopefully a couple teenagers, then set the den entrance(s). It is unlikely you will get the entire colony in one check.
Sewing fur with regular needles is a pain. You need special needles for fur. They are made of better steel and have three faces so they cut rather than push through the leather. They are good to have in the off-grid first aid kit, you can patch up nasty cuts easily using monofilament fishing line.
Sorry Swamp, but you have to look behind the curtain to understand why this is happening Why do you think they use the term, zombie deer? It's simple social programming