Source: AGFC ready to liberalize furbearer hunting rules … [Read more...]
Beaver Trapping Rules Tweaked for Jackson Hole WY Streams (jhnewsandguide.com)
Source: Beaver trapping rules tweaked for Jackson Hole streams | Local | jhnewsandguide.com … [Read more...]
Trapping faces possible changes in South Dakota | Local News Stories | capjournal.com
South Dakota trappers might be required to put their names and addresses on traps and snares they put in the field for furbearers and they might be prohibited during pheasant Source: Trapping faces possible changes in South Dakota | Local News Stories | capjournal.com … [Read more...]
Feds Say Lynx Recovery Warrants Delisting
Trappers in the northern forests of the Lower 48 can breathe a collective sigh of relief tonight. After more than a decade of political struggle, it appears that the Canada lynx is finally headed down the path toward delisting, and relinquished Federal control over the species’ management. Here’s the release: Status Review Indicates Canada Lynx … [Read more...]
Bobcat Recovery and Trapping Opportunity in Illinois, Indiana
Bobcats in Illinois and Indiana are the latest example of conservation success stories in state wildlife management. In Illinois, 2016-17 marked the first hunting/trapping season for bobcats in decades. Here's a recap: New Illinois Hunting and Trapping Season for Bobcats a Success Preliminary harvest of 141 bobcats SPRINGFIELD, IL – Hunters and trappers took a … [Read more...]
Cleaner Water Contributing to Muskrat Decline?
The seemingly widespread, long term decline in muskrat populations has been puzzling to trappers and wildlife managers for years. Despite less trapping pressure and far lower harvest, muskrat numbers continue to go down. Theories attempting to explain lower rat numbers range from habitat loss, higher populations of predators, disease, and many others. Pennsylvania … [Read more...]
Reintroduced in late 1960s, Fishers Fare Fine in West Virginia
Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail | Pulitzer Prize-winning West Virginia news | Reintroduced in late 1960s, fishers fare fine in WV … [Read more...]
Indiana Considers Otter Trapping Season
After a successful re-introduction of river otters to the state, Indiana wildlife officials are considering a fur trapping season for otters for the first time in decades. INDIANAPOLIS — Efforts to restore Indiana's river otter population have been so successful over the last two decades that state wildlife officials say they need to cull the population. The Natural … [Read more...]