What happens when the executive branch of Vermont's state government ignores policy mandates imposed on it by the legislative branch? The legislative branch complains, and the nonprofit sector sues.

Montana’s wolf trapping season will again run from Jan. 1 through Feb. 15 in western and most of central Montana – the same as last year’s season following a federal court order – and from Dec. 2 ...

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A gray wolf in snow. (Eric Cole/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission adopted regulations for the upcoming wolf and furbearer trapping seasons on Tuesday that keep ...

The recreational trapping season in Vermont begins on October 25 and runs through March 31, 2026. This includes the use of baited steel-jawed leghold traps and body-crushing kill traps, as well as ...

On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know ...

When the sun went down, the trap went in—and the results were insane. The night-time fish trap pulled up wild, unexpected catches perfect for bait. This video shows the chaos of checking traps under ...

Starting around 4,000 years ago, an elaborate fish-trapping system nourished expanding human populations in lowland Central America, a new study finds. The discovery of this massive construction ...