We (Dale and Shane Barks) have spent most of our lives on a remote northern trapline. We were filmed for Discovery Channel's "Sons of Winter," which followed our family around on our trapline.
Dale has an honours degree in Environmental Biology; a field which offers unique insight into the animal behaviour and ecosystem mechanics that we come into contact with every day while trapping. He has been enjoying life trapping and found employment using his backwoods experience to monitor threatened woodland caribou populations. He is currently completing his masters degree studying Chronic Wasting Disease in deep-boreal whitetails.
Shane is building his construction experience during the summers and guides for the family outfitting business (black bear and whitetail deer) in the spring and summer. He has built Bear Essential Wilderness Adventures (literally, including the hunting lodge) over the past few years and is kind enough to employ his poor secondary-education-seeking brothers.