Source: North Dakota's 1st Otter Season Closed After Limit Reached | North Dakota News | US News … [Read more...]
Biologist trapper retires after helping transform Alaska’s Aleutian Islands | Alaska Science Forum | newsminer.com
FAIRBANKS — On Halloween 2017, Alaskan Steve Ebbert, 56, retired from his job as an invasive species biologist. His longtime mission of removing arctic foxes and other human-introduced species from Source: Biologist trapper retires after helping transform Alaska's Aleutian Islands | Alaska Science Forum | newsminer.com … [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...]
Federal agency denies protections for small, fanged predator – NBC Montana
Federal wildlife officials say a cat-sized predator that lives in old-growth forests of the Northern Rockies is not in danger of extinction despite worries about habitat loss and accidental trapping. Source: Federal agency denies protections for small, fanged predator - NBC Montana … [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...]
Otter Recovery in West Virginia
Forty years ago, river otters were essentially extinct in West Virginia. Today, they can be found in almost every county of the state. Source: Charleston Gazette-Mail … [Read more...]
Trapping Helps Deer and Turkey Populations
Do you trap for a landowner who manages their land for hunting? You might want to show them this. The Bowhunting.com blog just posted an article on the importance of trapping to enhance deer and turkey populations. Every hunter hates predators on his property. Not that we don’t value these species. I enjoy watching them in the woods but their numbers need to be kept in check … [Read more...]