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Animals killed in Oregon by the USDA Wildlife Services
Source: USDA Wildlife Services
Check Times:
• Leghold, foot/leg snares, cages, and culverts -
• Neck snares & Conibear traps -
The Wildlife Services, part of the United States Department of Agriculture, acts as the primary animal control agent in the USA. The Wildlife Service enters into contracts with municipalities, counties, businesses, and individuals to exterminate animals deemed problems, actual or potential. Ranchers, farmers and timber companies are among its best customers.
BADGERS
BEARS
|
Intentional/unintentional target |
Type of trap |
Killed (total: 131) |
Released (total: 1) |
|
Intentional |
Leg snare |
107 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Firearms |
3 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Neck snares |
2 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Culvert |
8 |
1 |
|
Intentional |
Leghold |
1 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Dog |
6 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Cage |
4 |
0 |
BEAVERS
|
Intentional/unintentional target |
Type of trap |
Killed (total: 518) |
Released (total: 1) |
|
Intentional |
Leghold |
14 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Suitcase |
1 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Cage |
11 |
1 |
|
Intentional |
Conibear |
179 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Firearms |
94 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Neck snares |
205 |
0 |
|
Unintentional |
Neck snares |
1 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Spotlight |
13 |
0 |
BOBCATS
|
Intentional/unintentional target |
Type of trap |
Killed (total: 121) |
Released (total: 12) |
|
Intentional |
Neck snares |
29 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Leghold |
77 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Firearms |
12 |
0 |
|
Unintentional |
Neck snares |
1 |
0 |
|
Unintentional |
Leghold |
0 |
12 |
|
Intentional |
Dog |
2 |
0 |
|
Intentional/unintentional target |
Type of trap |
Killed (total: 5,602) |
Released (total: 0) |
|
Intentional |
Leg snares |
2 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
M44 |
306 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Gas cartridge, large |
101 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Aircraft |
2,818 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Firearms |
432 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Leghold, padded |
2 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Neck snares |
763 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Calling device, electronic |
10 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Dog |
69 |
0 |
|
Unintentional |
Leghold, padded |
1 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Leghold |
1,076 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Calling device, manual |
22 |
0 |
COYOTES
Some other animals killed: skunks, 161; ravens, 224; raccoons, 246; marmots, 329.
COUGARS
|
Intentional/unintentional target |
Type of trap |
Killed (total: 84) |
Released (total: 1) |
|
Unintentional |
Neck snares |
2 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Firearms |
3 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Neck snares |
22 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Leghold |
24 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Leg snares |
1 |
0 |
|
Unintentional |
Leg snares |
2 |
0 |
|
Unintentional |
Leg snares |
2 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Dog |
30 |
1 |
|
Intentional/unintentional target |
Type of trap |
Killed (total: 106) |
Released (total: 2) |
|
Unintentional |
Leghold |
0 |
2 |
|
Intentional |
Gas cartridge, large |
1 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Neck snare |
5 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Leghold |
90 |
0 |
|
Intentional |
Firearms |
9 |
0 |
|
Type of trap/ method |
Badgers killed |
Bears killed |
Beavers killed |
Bobcats killed |
Coyotes killed |
Red foxes killed |
Cougars killed |
|
Leghold |
35 |
7 |
31 |
34 |
892 |
44 |
20 |
|
Aircraft |
2 |
|
|
|
2,113 |
|
|
|
Neck snare |
7 |
8 |
200 |
15 |
531 |
28 |
18 |
|
Cage |
|
22 |
38 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
Poison |
|
15 |
|
11 |
302 (M44: 276) |
2 |
30 |
|
Conibear |
|
|
256 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
Foot snare |
|
138 |
38 |
4 |
|
|
3 |
|
Call |
|
|
|
|
33 |
|
1 |
|
Spotlight |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Killed in Den |
|
|
|
|
91 |
|
|
|
Firearm |
4 |
3 |
44 |
3 |
290 |
18 |
1 |
|
Total |
48 (3 nontarget) |
193 (5 nontarget) |
607 (5 nontarget) |
67 |
4,254 |
92 (2 nontarget) |
73 (3 nontarget) |
Some other animals killed: crows, 147; gulls, 1,011; jays, 104; ravens, 105; starlings, 9,328; marmots, 223; raccoons, 235; opposums, 36, skunks, 147.
|
Type of trap/ method |
Badgers killed |
Bears killed |
Beavers killed |
Bobcats killed |
Coyotes killed |
Red foxes killed |
Cougars killed |
|
Leghold |
66 |
2 |
13 |
29 |
889 |
43 |
13 |
|
Aircraft |
|
|
|
|
1,490 |
|
|
|
Neck snare |
8 |
6 |
277 |
18 |
784 |
30 |
16 |
|
Cage |
|
22 |
31 |
1 |
|
|
3 |
|
Poison |
|
3 |
|
10 |
193 (114 M44) |
5 |
34 |
|
Conibear |
|
|
140 |
|
|
|
|
|
Foot snare |
|
121 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
Call |
|
|
|
3 |
171 |
1 |
|
|
Spotlight |
|
|
79 |
|
|
|
|
|
Killed in Den |
|
|
|
|
103 |
|
|
|
Firearm |
9 |
13 |
33 |
|
181 |
10 |
2 |
|
Total |
83 (5 nontarget) |
172 |
573 (1 nontarget) |
61 (5 nontarget) |
3,811 |
90 (2 nontarget) |
70 (1 nontarget) |
Some other animals killed: jays, 154; gulls, 625; porcupines, 39 (6 nontarget); raccoons, 269 (16 nontarget); ravens, 297; skunks, 250 (13 nontarget).
|
Method |
Badger |
Bear |
Beaver |
Bobcat |
Cougar |
Coyote |
Fox |
|
Leghold trap |
149 |
|
24 |
53 |
15 |
1,170 |
76 |
|
Neck snare |
7 |
8 |
158 |
37 |
16 |
840 |
33 |
|
Foot snare |
|
132 |
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
Conibear |
|
|
121 |
|
|
|
|
|
Aircraft |
|
|
|
|
|
3,707 |
|
|
Firearm |
15 |
|
62 |
2 |
4 |
418 |
|
|
Killed in den |
|
4 |
|
|
|
25 |
|
|
Poison |
|
|
|
|
|
286 |
1 |
|
Other |
|
60 |
21 |
7 |
33 |
70 |
4 |
|
Total |
171 |
204 |
386 |
99 |
69 |
6,516 |
114 |
Some other animals killed: marmots, 171; raccoons, 271; ravens, 81. Total animals
killed in the USA by the Wildlife Service: 2,421,078. Click here for the complete
figures nationally (PDF). Number trapped by the Wildlife Service in Oregon using
leg-
|
Method |
Badger |
Bear |
Beaver |
Bobcat |
Cougar |
Coyote |
Fox |
|
Leghold trap |
105 |
4 |
23 |
33 |
20 |
954 |
55 |
|
Neck snare |
13 |
7 |
180 |
29 |
29 |
1004 |
34 |
|
Foot snare |
|
134 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
Conibear |
|
|
164 |
|
|
|
|
|
Aircraft |
|
|
|
|
|
3325 |
|
|
Firearm |
11 |
7 |
71 |
|
44 |
405 |
6 |
|
Killed in den |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Poison |
|
|
|
|
|
271* |
40 |
|
Other |
2 |
56 |
6 |
8 |
2 |
342 |
1 |
|
Total |
131 |
208 |
444 |
70 |
96 |
5993 |
136 |
* 269 poisoned with M44; 26 coyotes were killed using dogs; 216 raccoons killed; 160 ravens killed, total animals killed by the WS in Oregon, 34,657. Click here for Wildlife Service 2008 Data.