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FILE - This undated image provided by the US Fish and Wildlife Service shows a gray wolf resting in tall grass. Photo/US Fish & Wildlife/FILE)

Trapper lures wolves from Denali with dead horse, causing outcry

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:27am

The two primary breeding females from the best-known wolf pack at Denali National Park -- a pack viewed by tens of thousands of visitors each year -- have been killed, one of them by a trapper operating just outside the boundary of Alaska's premier national park.

The incident has raised an outcry among Alaska conservationists. They're demanding an immediate halt to wolf trapping in what was formerly a buffer zone northeast of the park, an area made famous as the scene of the abandoned school bus in Jon Krakauer's "Into the Wild."

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This undated image shows a wolf in Montana. Officials in Idaho are considering deploying federal sharpshooters in helicopters across the north-central part of the state in the coming weeks to kill up to 75 wolves they say are threatening elk near the Montana border. (Photo courtesy of Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks)

Killing of wolves from air in Idaho draws fire

Kim Murphy Los Angeles Times

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:58am

SEATTLE -- For years, the federal agencies that helped the U.S. wolf population recover under the Endangered Species Act have also quietly killed hundreds of wolves that threaten livestock or prized game.

They've even taken to the skies -- and are considering doing so again.

Officials in Idaho said Wednesday they would consider deploying federal sharpshooters in helicopters across north-central Idaho in the coming weeks to kill up to 75 wolves threatening elk near the Montana border.

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Wildlife trapping: Strong feelings for and against

David Crary The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 10, 2011 - 2:33pm

COOLBAUGH, Pa. -- Barry Warner has loved wildlife since boyhood, and lived out his dream of becoming a conservation officer. He sees no contradiction in the fact that he's also a lifelong trapper, skilled at capturing wild animals and, if appropriate, killing them as part of an avocation that many Americans view as barbarous.

Here in the township of Coolbaugh, on the edge of a vast track of state game land in northeast Pennsylvania, he's in his element. He demonstrates an array of traps unloaded from the back of his truck, reviews his 37-year career with the state game commission, from which he resigned as regional director in 2007, and recounts his periodic forays to North Carolina to trap bobcats, beaver and buck-toothed, wetland-dwelling nutria.

"Some people think trappers don't care about wildlife," says Warner. "It was my love for it that took me into this career. I don't want to see anything suffer."

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Learn trapping techniques at DWR class

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 3:01pm

The season for one of the oldest known methods of hunting is fast approaching, and state wildlife officials are encouraging people to educate themselves on the ins and outs of trapping before heading out in pursuit of their favorite furbearing animals.

Utah's trapping seasons aren't that far away. If the Utah Wildlife Board approves the date, permits to take bobcats will go on sale beginning Oct. 3.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is encouraging anyone interested in trapping to take a furharvester education course now. Anyone born after Dec. 31, 1984, is required by law to complete the course before trapping in the state.

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Wolves 1, Trappers 0 in federal legislation

Doug Smith, Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Last updated Thursday, April 14, 2011 - 7:48pm

Congressional budget cuts have defanged the federal wolf-control program in Minnesota, stunning state officials who say they aren't allowed to trap, kill or remove wolves that prey on livestock or pets.

The recent changes would effectively end efforts to control a growing population of wolves that killed record numbers of pets and livestock last year.

The Department of Natural Resources was notified Monday that Congress last month wiped out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's program to remove wolves that attack or threaten farm animals and pets. Only authorized federal trappers are allowed to trap or kill the wolves, which otherwise are protected by the federal Endangered Species Act.

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