NORFOLK — Roger Johnson and his wife were hiking near Haystack Mountain State Park when they came upon a young beaver caught in a steel trap near a small pond and instinctively went to investigate.

Rick Wilkinson, a town of Sullivan highway worker, carried a pick over his shoulder as he trudged back to Black Creek Road in his hip boots through a swampy, weedy area. Minutes earlier, he had ...

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 ...