The seal must remain on the hide until the tanning process has commenced.
When does the tanning process commenced?

Mice are are game animals and have a season and bag limit. you must have ether a trapping, or hunting license to take them.

What are the chances of recovering a wounded beaver? What are the odds that every person with a gun and a trapping license will know how and where to shoot beaver and have the skills to recover beaver? Will allowing this harvest method cause a conservation concern? There may be a reason this is not legal in some areas of the State.

Beaver sink after being shot. I don't know if all beaver sink all the time after being shot but I can eyewitness verify that beaver sink after being shot. This is from experience shooting them in Wyoming. If you are on shore and do not have a rod and reel with appropriate tackle, a big retriever breed able to haul them in, a boat or some other way to quickly retrieve the beaver then they can be easily lost.

Dirt, drasselt, the best tool one can have when shooting beaver is a dip net the other thing is shooting them with anything more than a rimfire is IMO stupid I know the concerns just frustrating to have such confusing regs. I also know ATA board has taken a stance agains shooting beaver always made me wonder when a whole bunch of guys go rat shooting every spring.

Dirt I imagine the chances of recovering a wounded beaver are about as high as recovering any other wounded game animal. Every year how many game animals are lost across this state or not even looked for because the hunter assumes they didn't hit the animal due to it running off appearing perfectly fine? Are beaver more valuable than a caribou? Thats like the argument against bear baiting for brown/grizzlies yet everyone being ok with baiting black bears.

I just don't see a huge number of people running out into the wilds to shoot beaver during trapping season if it was legal in all GMU's.

You may not

• Shoot big game animals while they are swimming,

I wonder why?

Shoot in the head with a high power rifle-you wont lose any.
You may lose one size at the auction house.
if you shoot them in a pond from shore with a 22 and they sink-wait a few days and they come up.
Or-rip the dam to natural flow and retrieve in a couple hours.

Except for caribou in some units.

Definitely not because you will lose them due to sinking; not deer species anyway. They float like a cork. I think it because many people think shooting a swimming animal is poor sportsmanship. I don't have any ethical problem with shooting a swimming animal though.

I think you are correct about people thinking its not sporting.

The two big game animals I see swimming here do not look like corks when they are swimming. Head out of water and top of the backs at or near the surface. I know one sinks or at least is neutral bouyant.

I see nothing more or less sporting between shooting a wading animal and a swimming animal. The one wading will be more recoverable. Personally, I'd wait till they got on shore.