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 ...

In the winter of 2020-2021, data showed about 4,300 trapper days in northwest Montana’s Region 1, which has the highest wolf densities. In 2021-22, that dropped to a little less than 1,800 ...

Too many grizzly bears are still on their pre-hibernation food prowl for Montana’s wolf trapping season to begin as scheduled next Monday. And if a group of grizzly advocates have their way ...

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 ...

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 ...