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 ...

NEAR SOLON SPRINGS - Jarid Rankila walked gingerly onto the frozen beaver pond, thumping the ice ahead of him with his ice spud - a long-handled spear-like chisel. If the thunk was solid, he would ...

ANSE AND I SMELL like Hell Fire predator lure, and Michelle won’t let us into the cabin until we leave our coats and coveralls on the porch. Anse, 7, worms out of his Carhartts and giggles “Hell Fire” ...

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 ...

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 ...