HB 3932 prohibiting the taking of beavers on Oregon's public lands passed the Senate committee on Natural Resources and Wildfires along party lines 3-2 today. It will now go to the Senate floor where the Democrats hold a super majority.... and then it presumably will be on the governor's desk to sign into law.

Kudos to Republican Senator Todd Nash (District 29 in the northeast corner of the state) who gave eloquent testimony in defense of trappers in the state and who testified that even in areas of his district that have been closed to beaver trapping for over 60 years there has been no recruitment of beaver there. IN other words....not the trappers fault that there are areas with no beaver!


SIde note. This battle ain't over by a long shot. Stay tuned.

If anything like that passed in Alaska, beavers would be their last worry, I’d start trapping humans lol

(This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) democrats.

Yep

Why you guys picking on BP?

Democrats, Republican your problem is white people and there stupid ideas. If there is enough beaver for a season and the odd guy who wants to trap, let them. There going to have to be removed when they start flooding out roads and fields. Make more duck habitat and water storage. Not that you can drink that water, but at least it's good for flighting forest fires

Wow! That was racist!^^^^^^^^ I agree, we can't trust the urban white man. Maybe not even the urban Black white man?

Just about every anti-sportsman bill is Democrat driven !

Want to remove a recovered species from ESA protection you can bet Democrats will be seeking out a Liberal Judge to stop it !

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What percentage of Oregon is public lands?

53% ....but the state's charter holds that all navigable streambeds are public up to the high water mark. Unknown at this point is if HB 3932 will include these waters. If so my beaver trapping is done (barring the lawsuits we will be filing).

Should mention that a few years back the Northwest Forest Accord took away beaver fur trapping on private timberlands (companies with holdings of 50,000 acres or more) in Oregon. That removed another 10 million acres for beaver fur trapping.

How did they get trapping stopped on private lands?

Swampy, it was a deal with the devil. The governor led accord got the antis and the timber interests together around a table to hammer out an accord that would result in less litigation over timber harvests. The timber interests were asked to ban "recreational beaver harvest" on their holdings as part of their compromise. In turn the antis aren't tying themselves to trees and suing to halt timber sales.

And from my understanding the timber companies have free rein to have paid trappers trap them, just not the general public.

Was it just beaver trapping they eliminated?

So, if I'm reading this right... your party banned your livelihood?

Yes.

I'm thinking you read that correctly. Lol

No money has to change hands technically, the public could do it for free if they chose too, but the beaver cannot be sold.

Because the sale of wildlife is not democratically correct enough in Oregon, but the mandated wanton waste of beaver is ok under these guidelines.

You can see this whole issue is just a guise, using/abusing wildlife management to give this issue democratic political clout, the real issue here is anti-trapping.

If our state govt. was serious about saving beavers in small streams, they would put a bounty on lions in these regions like we previously had when beavers were abundant.

It’s sad BP that no matter how many times sportsman and others have warned/told you and many other trappers and hunters that the democrat party of your younger years is gone, yourself and many like you had a hard time believing it is so. I hope this sad event, not the first sadly, will help to awaken and create a new fire burning in you to change your mindset and see who is actually on the outdoorsman’s team. The dems have let themselves, happily I may add, be taken over locally and nationally by a bunch of progressive idiots and pukes. I hope that the Midwest trappers here, that’s Mn & Wi mainly, who still can’t admit that they are voting themselves and future generations out of our great pastime will see this. The greatest greed, I believe, is to do something you love, then by one’s actions, make it impossible for others to find that joy also. Good luck BP in this next round of fighting, wishing you the best.