Minnesota wolf trappers using wolf snares must follow strict requirements specific to the wolf-trapping season. A snare is essentially a loop of cable wire. One end of the cable is typically secured ...

There are two legislative bills about wolf trapping: House Bill 224 will allow snares and HB 225 extends the wolf trapping season into the time when some bears are out of their dens and vulnerable to ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A federal court in Missoula granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday limiting the use of wolf ...

The Montana Fur Harvesters and Montana Trappers Association are hosting educational clinics on the responsible strategies and techniques for snaring wolves. Free educational clinics are scheduled for ...

BOISE, Idaho— In a victory for conservation groups, a federal judge issued a ruling late Tuesday preventing Idaho from allowing wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat between March 1 and ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte on Friday signed bills allowing snares to be used for the trapping of wolves and lengthening Montana’s trapping seasons. House Bill 224 and House Bill 225, brought by Rep. Paul ...

For the second time this summer, wolf snares set by a Juneau hunter killed a black bear, according to an Alaska State Troopers dispatch. Mark David Mitchell, 39, was charged Thursday with attempting ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Trappers can continue pursuing wolves under Idaho’s current regulations after a federal judge rejected a request by conservation groups to temporarily block the state’s expanded ...

BOISE, Idaho — Wolf trapping and snaring will be restricted across the majority of Idaho this Spring for the second year in a row, after a federal judge upheld a ruling that was challenged by the ...

LEWISTON – A federal judge’s ruling will shorten Idaho’s wolf trapping season by as many as nine months to prevent potential harm to threatened grizzly bears. The ruling issued this week by federal ...

A federal court ruling will cut back Idaho’s wolf trapping and snaring season in large swaths of the state in response to claims that grizzly bears, which are protected under the Endangered Species ...