Due to documented trapping of grizzlies, FWP attempted to rein in the highly unregulated trapping of coyotes. Trapping ...

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 ...

Two conservation groups agreed to dismiss a lawsuit against the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission this week after it adopted wolf and coyote trapping season regulations they said will protect ...

KC York writes, Massive, injurious leghold traps, strangling snares, and quick-kill-body-crushing conibear traps, can be ...

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 ...

A last-minute amendment to wolf trapping regulations recently approved by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has ...

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.

Nov. 20—Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission last week approved the wolf trapping regulations for this upcoming season. This new regulation builds upon a federal court order that limits ...