Small Game Trapping and Hunting Regulations

• Definitions
• Education Requirement
• Harvest Seasons
• License Requirements and fees
• Mandatory Reporting
  
  
• Furbearer Trapping and Hunting Regulations (pdf)
• Furtaker Application (pdf)

Trapper Education Requirement

By action of the 1985 Oregon Legislature, all trappers born after June 30, 1968, and all first-time Oregon trappers are required to complete an approved trapper education course.

The course is not required of persons trapping on land owned or leased by that person, the person’s immediate family, or a person’s agent who is controlling damage to livestock or agricultural crops.

The course may be completed at home. Testing will take place at Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) offices throughout the state. A furtaker’s license will be issued by the Salem headquarters ODFW office after the test has been successfully completed and mailed to Salem headquarters.

Course materials are available by writing or telephoning Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, I&E Division, 3406 Cherry Ave. NE, Salem, OR 97303, (800) 720-6339.

Trapper Education Program

License Requirements

Juveniles younger than 14 years of age are not required to purchase a license, except to hunt or trap bobcat and otter; but, they must complete the Trapper Education course and register to receive a brand number through the Salem ODFW office.

Landowners must obtain either a furtaker’s license, a hunting license for furbearers, or a free license to take furbearers on land they own and on which they reside. To receive the free license, the landowner must obtain from ODFW Salem Headquarters a receipt of registration for the location of such land prior to hunting or trapping furbearing mammals on that land.

License and Tag Fees

Furtakers need only (1) license. A Furtaker's License allows the holder to trap, hunt and pursue. A Hunting License for Furbearers allows the holder only to hunt and pursue.

Mandatory Annual Reporting

Persons who were licensed, but did not fill out and return a completed furtaker harvest report form postmarked by April 15, will not be issued a furbearer harvest license for the following season.

• Furtakers Harvest Report Form (pdf)
• Sample Report Form (pdf)

Important Marten Harvest Information

The Department of Fish and Wildlife requests that furtakers provide the date, location of harvest and sex of all marten they take, and that all marten carcasses be turned in to the local ODFW office prior to March 1, following each season. Furtaker cooperation is critical to successful future management of this species.

Furbearer Pursuit Seasons

No animals shall be killed except during authorized open harvest seasons. A bobcat record card must be in possesion to harvest bobcat. A Furtaker's License or Hunting License for furbearers must be in possesion to pursue.

Furbearer Harvest Seasons