BUSINESS & AGLIFE
B2 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 2022
Oregon predator trap check regulation worries livestock industry
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
SALEM — Traps for
predators must be checked
more frequently under new
Oregon wildlife regulations
that the farm industry fears
will undermine protections
for livestock.
Signifi cantly for cattle
and sheep producers,
restraining traps must be
checked more than twice
as often if they’re meant to
stop predators from dam-
aging livestock operations.
Due to the long distances
between many traps, agri-
culture groups worry the
revised rules will hinder
eff orts to control coyotes
and other predators.
“We have a multitude of
predatory animals and their
populations are growing,”
said Todd Nash, president
of the Oregon Cattemen’s
Association. “The thing that
seems to reduce over time is
the number of capable trap-
pers. They’re spread so thin
to begin with that they’re
covering huge swaths of
land.”
For traps that kill pred-
ators, the state’s Fish and
Wildlife Commission has
reduced the time between
trap checks from 30 days to
14 days, which the OCA did
not oppose.
However, traps and
snares that restrain live-
stock-damaging preda-
tors must now be checked
every two days under the
new regulations, com-
pared to every seven days
previously.
With the limited number
of available trappers, the
rule change eff ectively
reduces the amount of work
they’ll be able to perform
— especially when fuel
prices are so high, critics
say.
“That’s a game changer.
You change the way you
operate,” Nash said.
If they’re not intended to
prevent livestock damage,
restraining traps for pred-
ators must now also be
checked every two days,
down from three days
previously.
Traps intended to curb
livestock damage are meant
to catch specifi c predators.
They were previously given
more time to work than
those not aimed at partic-
ular individuals.
By “bending to urban
pressure” and reducing trap
check intervals, the com-
mission has shown it’s “out
of touch with rural commu-
nities and land managers,”
said Lauren Smith, the
Oregon Farm Bureau’s gov-
ernment and national aff airs
director.
“Across Oregon’s vast
landscape, there are terrain
and weather issues, lack of
road access, trap effi ciency
and many other issues
that come into play when
making such a signifi cant
reduction in a trap check
time intervals,” Smith said
in an email.
The rule change fails to
account for these practical
challenges or the livestock
losses and other costs that
predators impose on rural
landowners, she said.
Complying with the new
rules will cause expenses to
“skyrocket” for the USDA’s
Wildlife Services divi-
sion, whose agents are often
hired to trap predators, said
Jim Soares, vice president
of the Oregon Trappers
Association.
The agency would need
to spend substantially more
money just to perform the
same amount of work, but
it’s unclear where the addi-
tional funding would come
from, Soares said.
“This is going to be dev-
astating for the livestock
industry,” he said.
Environmental advo-
cates, on the other hand,
cheered the revised trap
check requirements because
shorter intervals will
decrease the amount of time
that animals suff er. More
frequent checks will also
help prevent the unintended
deaths of non-target species.
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