I caught one same trap as yesterday. We moved one, pulled one, and made one new set. Gerry rode with me.



Wyatt Erpp caught a hog today.

Good to see you out there getting wet and cold NF! Was over 70F here yesterday.

BP, nothing like beaver trapping to make you feel alive. lol





Got to spend some time doing one of my favorite activities today. I got skunked on my three trap line, but Wyatt erpp had a few for me.

Some nice looking fur on those plews NF

Newfox, good to see you got some time off to get after
some beaver.

Yes nice to see NF at it again-we missed his posting this winter

One more today . Gerry rode with me again. Was fun while it lasted but I’ve got work tomorrow. I’ll have some more shop picks Wyatt Erpp is going to stay after em. Got the cobwebs off my fleshing knife at least. Lol

Those are dandy looking beaver pelts NF! Wish my late season beaver could look like those.

Although my season is done I hope that I still get to trap beaver into the future. The anti's pulled a fast one and introduced a bill to the Energy, Climate and Environment Committee in the past days of our legislative session to ban beaver trapping. We only knew of it this last weekend. The antis are claiming that beaver would have prevented the forest fires we've had, and that even the loss of one is a tragedy.

We may lose this one. They already successfully banned recreational trapping of beaver on private forestland in Oregon.

BP, I’m sorry to hear that. If you don’t mind high taxes, plenty of rain, deep snow, cold, lots of mosquitoes and humidity New York Adirondacks and Tug Hill regions are loaded with beavers.

You wouldn’t like the Eastern Shore… no beavers here.

If it passes I'll have to sign up for Beaver Trappers Anonymous to see if I can kick the habit.....one day at a time.

You'd have to change your handle too. To formerly known as beaverpeeler.
I hope you guys beat this one.
I'm not sure I know what "recreational trapping of beaver on private forestland" means
Does this mean you can't trap on your own land, but only public?

Hi my name is Beaverpeeler. Lol

"Recreational trapping" would be what most of us call fur trapping. The private forestland they refer to is all the big players like Weyerhauser, Georgia Pacific, etc. Any of the ones with over 50,000 acres of woodlands. Not small woodlot owners.

I just filled out my Oregon report, and I thought the way it read, any land where the trees were grown primarily for timber harvest was considered forestland, regardless of size. Of course Fish and Wildlife doesn't mention any of it being illegal on the report, you just have to fill out what area you were trapping in, whether it was forestland or not, private or not, and why you were trapping, with one of the options being recreation.

Wyatt Erpp caught an otter and a muskrat today. I got a couple blankets on the boards.

Nice looking pink speres there NF.

Nice.

And of course the golden question is...were you trapping public or private land if all the land up to the high water mark is by definition public in Oregon.

I just thought they were trying to get you to incriminate yourself. Lol. But yeah by that definition you could trap beaver anywhere.