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Trapping Foxes in Basking Ridge

February 15, 2024February 15, 2024 by Jon Booth 3 Comments

When my brother Stuart ‘Budge’ Booth (1939- 2002) was a kid in the early 1950s, he used to go across Maple Avenue and set traps over towards the Great Swamp. We lived on South Finley Avenue. In the morning before school he would check his traps, and if there was a fox caught, he would

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