LAS CRUCES - Las Cruces Animal Control is restarting its live trap program that was temporarily paused in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The program allows Las Cruces residents to request use of a ...

Density was estimated for the old-field mouse (Peromyscus polionotus) and the cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus). Two types of trapping configurations, grid and parallel census lines, each with assessment ...

Jim Stickles, a field crew supervisor with the PGC, attaches a wire to the trigger of a Clover trap used to live-capture deer for a study. TOM VENESKY/the times leader PGC biologist Kevin Wenner isn’t ...

When I was growing up on Killough Valley in the Ozarks west of here, wild critters were taken for granted. I never, in my wildest dreams, thought I would wind up living in town and becoming Trapper ...

To our discussion about live-trapping groundhogs of a few weeks ago, Jim Monko, of Camp Hill, added, "The chucks that take up residence in your backyard are smart. You have to place a cover from the ...

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 ...