HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge in Montana has significantly shortened the state’s wolf trapping season to protect grizzly bears that have not yet begun hibernating from being injured by ...

A federal judge has cut wolf trapping season in half in most of Montana. The decision comes after multiple animal advocacy groups filed a lawsuit claiming that federally-protected grizzly bears ...

A federal judge in Missoula issued an order late Tuesday afternoon that will limit Montana’s wolf trapping season to Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 next year in hunting Regions 1 through 5 and three counties ...

A federal judge in Missoula in November 2023 ordered the wolf trapping season be limited to Jan. 1 to Feb. 15 in FWP Regions 1 through 5 and in three counties along Montana’s north-central ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks department provided this Q&A on the wolf hunting and trapping seasons in the state. Q. How many wolves were harvested during the 2012-13 hunting and trapping season?

Kim Bean, of Wolf and Wildlife Advocates, urged the commission to consider less lethal means to help landowners in wild areas deal with predators. Lifelong Montana trapper Greg Hill called the ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission passed regulations for recreational coyote and wolf trapping in an attempt to reduce the amount of incidental grizzly bear trappings. Ukraine Defies Trump ...

The regulations had extended wolf-trapping season into a period when grizzly bears are still out of the den, spurring concerns that traps could injure bears. Montana officials and conservationists ...

HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge in Montana has significantly shortened the state's wolf trapping season to protect grizzly bears that have not yet begun hibernating from being injured by traps.

Trappers and anti-trappers were displeased with the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission ... the commission had to set its wolf trapping seasons in the western half of the state — the designated ...