INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) – There’s one last chance to tell Indiana’s Natural Resources Commission what you think about its proposed rule changes for deer hunting and otter trapping. Comments can ...

Though struggling to recolonize its traditional habitats after being wiped out by the fur trade, Lontra canadensis appears ...

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — North Dakota’s river otter trapping season is officially closed. North Dakota Game and Fish says this is because the state’s predetermined harvest limit of 25 has been ...

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In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

In the case of pine martens, successful harvests are cyclical on three- to five-year rotations, depending on natural food ...

The otters have returned to the headwaters of the ... They were gone by the early 1900s — a casualty of fur trapping and habitat destruction. In the 1980s, there were focused reintroduction ...

The river otter was removed from South Dakota’s threatened species list in 2020, allowing for a trapping season. The harvest limit is 20 otters a year. The season this year lasted only a few ...

“In 2021, we had 25% of the otter activity at these latrines compared to what we had a decade ago,” Ben-David told lawmakers, ...

When fluffed up the soft fibres trap air giving the otter buoyancy and insulation preventing the cold water from reaching their skin. Sea otters groom almost constantly, but this isn’t an act of ...