BOISE, Idaho— In a victory for conservation groups, a federal judge issued a ruling late Tuesday preventing Idaho from allowing wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat between March 1 and ...

The lawsuit contends that continued and expanded wolf trapping and snaring will injure and kill non-target grizzly bears and Canada lynx, which are federally protected species. The groups also filed ...

Wolf trapping dates in half of Montana ... limits on trap sizes and snares goes into effect, but not for trapping for livestock protection, and only Feb. 16-Dec. 3. Nothing applies outside ...

A gray wolf in snow. (Eric Cole/U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... 306 instances of non-target species being captured in various traps or snares during the past five years – at least 143 of which ...

Leopold wolf following grizzly bear ... bears since the bears could also be incidentally trapped in coyote traps or snares. And earlier this month, the Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted ...