Proposal would cover four animals in fur dealer rules

The proposal's text includes badger, raccoon, red fox, and wolf pelts in its fur dealer definition and license rules. The definition covers people and businesses dealing in Montana in skins or pelts of badgers, raccoons, red foxes, wolves, fur-bearing animals, or predatory animals. A fur dealer would need a state license before dealing in covered skins or pelts. Hunters and trappers selling skins or pelts they lawfully took, and people buying only for their own use and not for resale, would not need this license. The draft says it would take effect upon passage and approval, but the measure died in process.