TRAIL CAMERAS SNARE BOOTLEG TRAPPER

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Trail cameras snare bootleg trapper

(Photo by GARY KRAMER/USFWS) A gray wolf, also known as canis lupus.

SANDPOINT — A Coeur d’Alene wolf trapper is facing misdemeanor charges for trapping without a license and unlawfully using game to bait one of the traps.

Dylan T. Edwards is scheduled to be arraigned in Bonner County Magistrate Court on March 1, court records show.

The traps were discovered on the south side of Hoodoo Mountain after a dog was caught in a snare trap in late December, an Idaho Department of Fish & Game conservation officer’s report said. A second snare trap and a foothold trap were subsequently located. Deer hair, hide, bones and flesh were used to bait the foothold trap, the officer’s report said.

The snare and foothold traps lacked the required identification tags, prompting Fish & Game to install trail cameras…

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