trapping

Wyoming Supreme Court Justice John Fenn said awarding damages for emotional pain from a traumatic event such as the survivor of a car crash could open a floodgate of litigation.

The rules allow for the killing of up to 450 wolves in Montana.

A group called Wyoming Untrapped has recorded over 70 instances of traps catching dogs unintentionally since 2000.

All areas where trapping is being conducted will have major access points marked with warning signs.

Biologists sedate the grizzly bears and fit them with tracking collars. They also collect samples and take measurements.

The department says annual monitoring is vital to the ongoing management of wolves in Wyoming.

PINEDALE, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has begun trapping wolves and grizzly bears in western Wyoming. The idea behind the trapping is to help monitor the wolves and bears. The agency is trapping wolves this summer in the northern Wind River Mountains and Gros Ventre (groh-VAWNT') Mountains north of Pinedale and east of Bondurant...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) — Scientists will begin trapping grizzly bears south of Meeteetse as part of an ongoing study of the bears across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Billings Gazette reports Monday (http://bit.ly/IVmM1u ) that scientists will capture the bears with snares and culvert traps...