He’s spent his life trapping animals. Now he’s an endangered species.

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He’s spent his life trapping animals. Now he’s an endangered species.
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As recently as the 1970s, Maryland counted approximately 5,000 trappers; today there are maybe 300 to 400 active statewide who generally trap for fur, food or pest control, state officials said.

season. When deer hunting begins, he opens his butcher shop in the barn behind his house, where he also builds eel pots and other watery traps that he lists for sale.

“Our first wedding anniversary, he took me on a ‘cruise’ up Hunting Creek checking eel pots,” said his wife, Roberta “Bert” Baker. The couple met on an ambulance run in October 1985 — she was an EMT with St. Leonard, he a member of Prince Frederick’s rescue squad — and they more or less hit itNot long after they began dating, Dan Baker said, he realized they had something special. While driving to the movies in Annapolis in her Monte Carlo, they passed a dead raccoon.

Roberta oversees the St. Leonard fire department as its president. She spent the first 10 years of her life in Cleveland before moving to Southern Maryland with her family, but embraced country living, if not the“I don’t know anybody sane who wants to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning and get your hunting gear on and go out in this bitter cold and duck hunt. That is just crazy to me,” she said.Baker picked up many of his interests from his father and namesake — Dan is Daniel O.

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