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California has enacted a new ban on fur trapping for animal pelts, making it the first state to outlaw a centuries-old livelihood that was intertwined with the rise of the Western frontier.

The arrival of beaver dams in the Pacific Northwest’s Elwha River delta may have surprising benefits.

A federal wildlife-killing program will be banned from using deadly M-44s — spring-loaded capsules armed with cyanide spray — across more than 10 million acres of public land in Wyoming.

“EPA is blatantly ignoring its fundamental duty to protect the public, our pets, and native wildlife from the cruel, lethal impacts of cyanide bombs lurking on our public lands."

"Led by animal-rights experts, the ivy league’s new Animal Law & Policy Clinic will focus on issues affecting farmed animals, wildlife, and animals in captivity with the aim of creating lasting legal change for all life forms."

The federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services has agreed to stop shooting and trapping California beavers on more than 11,000 miles of river and 4 million acres of land where the killing could hurt endangered wildlife.

Watersheds in red were restricted to a single beaver trapper, but have been totally closed to the pursuit. Stream drainages in yellow were once limited to a single trapper, but will open this fall to any trapper with a general license.

A Park County man received a lifetime suspension of his hunting, fishing and trapping privileges for repeated wildlife exploitation, Colorado Parks and Wildlife announced Friday.