trapping

Montana's Democrat Senator Jon Tester has fallen in line with fellow Democrats in opposing Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court.

The issue couldn't be more politically polarized, as not a single Democrat in the state Senate has endorsed a bill to add 'trapping' to hunting and fishing to Montana's Constitution.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks is hosting their fourth wolf trapping certification coming up at the end of the summer.

The National Trappers Association has brought its outdoor expo to western Montana for the first time.

Montana Sportsmen For Fish and Wildlife will be celebrating their seventh annual fundraising event at the Missoula County Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 14.

As wolf trapping ends and hunting is coming to a close in the middle of March, Ron Aasheim with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks reflects on how the season went this year compared to years past.

Montana wildlife officials have reduced quotas for bobcat hunting and trapping across a broad swath of central and northern Montana.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Gray wolf numbers in Montana declined 12 percent last year and livestock attacks by the predators took an even sharper drop after four years of regulated hunting and trapping.

Despite protests and alleged death threats, a wolf and coyote hunt will go on as scheduled this weekend in Sanders County.

Sixteen grizzlies have been captured so far this year by teams gathering information that will be used this fall to decide whether to propose lifting federal protections of the bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.