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Does Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?
Quote from: JLS on August 06, 2016, 11:57:33 AMDoes Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?No to both.
Quote from: Ricochet on August 06, 2016, 12:50:48 PMQuote from: JLS on August 06, 2016, 11:57:33 AMDoes Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?No to both. Are quotas routinely filled?
Interesting for sure.Looks like OR wants to harvest about 16% of it's population annually (based on the estimates given) vs. WA at 13%.
Looks like OR doesn't even come close to filling quotas. They do harvest about 2x the cats that WA does. 177 to 385 in 2014/15 and 202 to 409 in 2015/16.
Washington seems like they are more interested in reducing the hunter and fisherman numbers.
The Oregon cougar plan also used the government hunters from the Dept. of Agriculture. They went to several private ranches and ran cats with the hounds and killed many cougars all over the Ukiah and Heppner units. A friend of mine is an outfitter in the Ukiah unit and he has seen drastic improvements in elk numbers. On one of his ranches alone they killed 12 cats. That was just one of several of his ranch properties. The numbers of cats killed was staggering, It was hard to believe the numbers.
Oregon non resident tag $15.50. Washington $222.00. Way more incentive to buy one in there state.