Wyoming Legislature

Apr 25 2025

Legislature Update on Animal Welfare Bills Sixty-eighth Wyoming Legislature (2025) by Sylvia Bagdonas

The 2025 legislative session exhibited a focus on wildlife killing, especially predators. This included wolves, coyotes, bears, and mountain lions.
Feb 23 2025

Wyoming otters set to lose protected status after reclassification passes final vote

The likely statute change opens the door for relocating or killing the fish-eating mustelids when they’re deemed a nuisance, but not recreational hunting and trapping.
Sep 14 2024

Wyoming’s legal embrace of killing wildlife with snowmobiles triggers federal bill

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) was the lead author of a bill that’s been dubbed the Snowmobiles Aren’t Weapons Act, which would prohibit running over and killing wildlife with motorized vehicles on some classes of federal land.
Feb 13 2021

Concern increases with trapping near high use trails on public lands

Surely there is room for some common sense approach instead of just ignoring the issue and railing about dogs as a way to avoid the discussion. Surely there is a better way forward.
Dec 09 2020

Solons balk at trapping reform

“But then take a place like Snow King Mountain in Jackson, that has extremely high use,” Nesvik said. The Game and Fish director said his staff would consider trapping setbacks in a place like that, where they don’t currently have the authority to create them for predator trapping.