Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Evans and Standley with their giant wolf On Dec. 22 I received a message from a local Fairbanks trapper whom I’ve known for years.

The Alaska Board of Game has rejected two efforts to toughen state trapping laws and overturned another law opposed by trappers. During a 10-day statewide meeting in Fairbanks that ended Saturday, the ...

I grew up trapping muskrat in western New York state in the small rural community of Bolivar. I learned to trap from school mates, setting No. 110 conibears in a swamp near town. The first swamp I ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s wildlife management depends on extensive research of a large number of populations across a vast expanse of land. Much of the funding available for that ...

Every winter, dogs in Alaska are maimed and killed by snares and powerful “quick-kill” Conibear crushing traps placed, virtually without restriction, in public multi-use areas. Alaska’s exceptionally ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska advisory council will recommend that federal regulators end the requirement for subsistence hunters to mark their traps with identifying numbers. The Southeast Alaska ...