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The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency will be conducting its first trapping education instructor workshop. The one-day workshop will be held Saturday, March 13 at the TWRA Region III Office in Crossville beginning at 1 p.m. (CST).

The workshop is being provided at no cost, but is directed toward experienced trappers who want to become a certified instructor in the field. There are a limited number of certified trapping instructors scattered across the state and the TWRA has certified just under 200 students in the past year.
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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will soon seek citizen input on nearly a dozen different hunting season options.

The first of several public meetings to be held during February and March is scheduled for Feb. 23 in Frontenac. The agency will take public comments on possible changes to Zone 3 deer hunting regulations, youth deer hunting, use of crossbows, fall turkey hunting, the duck season opener and trapping.

“We are addressing a number of topics that will be of great interest to many hunters and trappers this year,” said Steve Merchant, DNR wildlife program manager. “We are very open to comment on all of these proposals and hope our stakeholders can either attend a meeting or give us their comments online.”
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The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) State Environmental Conservation Police (EnCon Police) have arrested a Plainville man on numerous charges of illegal trapping in the town of Avon.

EnCon Police received a complaint from a citizen that while walking his dog on a trail along the Farmington River in Avon on January 31, his dog was caught in an illegal snare trap. The dog was not injured.

On February 2, 2010, EnCon Police officers located several more illegal snare and unpadded leghold traps set along the river area. While conducting the investigation the officers observed Stanislaw Koldziej, age 57, of Plainville, Connecticut approach them carrying additional illegal snare traps and other trapping equipment.
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Furbearer registrations in northeast Minnesota for the 2009 trapping season increased 13 percent from 2008, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

Jeff Lightfoot, DNR regional wildlife manager, said trappers registering 154 more marten, 118 more otter, 240 more bobcat and 112 fewer fisher.

The 2009-2010 season for marten and fisher was a nine-day season. This season length was instituted in 2007 to reduce the harvest of these two species due to a high harvest in 2006. A similar harvest to 2008 suggests that the shortened season length is producing the desired result of a reduced harvest level on these two species.
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