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mals. The Commissioners are engaged in a good work. 

 Let us all encourage and assist them in carrying it out. 

 For in the end that which they are doing redounds to the 

 benefit, pleasure and recreation of every true sportsman. 



TRAPPING IN OREGON. 



Last year the Game Department issued nearly one 

 thousand trapper's licenses. The law provides that 

 trappers must at the end of the season (February 28) 

 furnish to the Commission a verified report of the num- 

 ber and kinds of fur-bearing animals caught and killed 

 during the season and where sold and the amount de- 

 rived from the sale. Only 64 per cent of those taking 

 out licenses made such a report. The total amount of 

 money derived from fur-bearing animals caught by 

 those who turned in their reports aggregated nearly 

 $10,000.00. 



Under our laws otter, mink, fisher, marten and 

 muskrat are considered fur-bearing animals, on which 

 there is a closed season. The open season on these five 

 species begins on November first of each year and con- 

 tinues through to March first of the next year. There 

 is no closed season on predatory animals, such as cou- 

 gar, wolf, bear, cats, skunk and coyotes. 



There is no open season on beaver. 



We believe that along many Oregon streams and in 

 the wilds of her forests there is an excellent opportunity 

 for good trappers. We would like to see more trapping 

 done in this state. In addition to the money which is 

 derived from the sale of the pelts there is a bounty paid 

 on wolf and cougar by the various counties and an addi- 

 tional bounty by the Fish and Game Commission. Tak- 



