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A little after lunchtime on Jan. 14, Brad Herrick was heading out the door to walk his dog, Ruby, when he thought he saw a dog running loose.
About 20 yards away, it was trotting down the sidewalk on East Dayton Street past Lapham Elementary School. It was skinny and its brown coat looked âdisheveled.â
Herrick, an ecologist with the UW Arboretum, did a double-take.
âThatâs a coyote,â he realized.
Karl Lang shot this photo of a coyote feasting on a rabbit from the window of his home on Waunona Way. It s wearing a radio collar researchers use to track its movement.
Finnish auction house takes over Wisconsin mink trading hub
Chris Hubbuch
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) – Under the harsh light of fluorescent bulbs in an unadorned warehouse, Claudia Manzanilla picks up a stiff mink pelt and runs her fingers along the silvery fur.
In less than a second, she assesses the length of the fur, sorts it and grabs another seemingly identical pelt from a pile of stiffened animal skins.
The evaluation is one step in an elaborate process to grade the furs provided by American mink farmers before they re sold a step that almost didn t happen this year.
Last fall North American Fur Auctions, a 350-year-old Canadian company with offices in Stoughton, entered court-supervised restructuring, closing one of the primary market portals just as Wisconsin mink ranchers were beginning their harvest.