Animal welfare groups have agreed to drop a lawsuit against the state of Minnesota in exchange for the state's pledge to reduce accidental trapping of threatened lynx. The Humane Society of the United ...

Three conservation groups filed a federal court lawsuit Thursday against Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners and Director Jeff Hagener for allowing trapping and snaring in Canada lynx ...

MINNEAPOLIS— A federal judge today ordered the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to ban most uses of strangulation snares in northeastern Minnesota. This legal win resolves the Center for ...

ST. PAUL -- The Minnesota Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is failing to protect threatened lynx forest cats from trappers aiming at other species, according to a lawsuit filed in federal ...

Minnesota will restrict strangulation snares and other traps in the northeastern part of the state to settle a federal lawsuit over Canada lynx dying in traps set for other animals. The changes are ...

The Canada Lynx was listed under the federal Endangered Species Act in 2000. Its federally designated critical habitat includes northeastern Minnesota. (Photo by Washington Department of Fish and ...

Local trappers harvested about 50 lynx in 2019 and 2020 combined. One researcher expects another peak could come in the next ...

A national environmental group says it will file suit to change how the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources allows trapping of animals like bobcat, fisher and marten because those traps also are ...

The lynx looks out from inside a chicken-wire cage. Despite its loss of freedom and the nearby squeaking of boots on cold snow, the wild cat looks calm, as if it might be resting while digesting a ...

MINNEAPOLIS— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources today for permitting trapping that harms Canada lynx. In the past decade, state and federal agencies ...

NORTH OF COLDFOOT — The lynx looks out from inside a chicken-wire cage. Despite its loss of freedom and the nearby squeaking of boots on cold snow, the wild cat looks calm, as if it might be resting ...

As the big moment approaches, a hush falls over the dozen or so people gathered high on a snowy logging road in the Kettle Range in north central Washington. They walk through the snow as quietly as ...