ON LAKE VERMILION, NEAR COOK -- It's 10 below zero on New Year's Day, and Tom Yankowiak of Cook has appointments to keep with 15 beaver huts. Yankowiak is near one of those lodges now, chipping ...

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation posted a sign near Smith Lake recently, warning people to stay away and to keep pets away from the area because beaver trapping for the ...

Nov. 27—The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation posted a sign near Smith Lake recently, warning people to stay away and to keep pets away from the area because beaver trapping for ...

Please don’t insult us trappers by implying that the person who killed a family’s pet dog with a 330 conibear trap is a trapper. You have no idea how mad I would be if this were my dog. The fact that ...