Ohio trapper numbers are not especially large. Ohio Division of Wildlife records show some 13,300 fur taker permits were sold in 2019.
Unlike the familiar and useful varmint removers of city and suburb, money doesn’t necessarily play a primary part in motivating the seasonal trapper.lists trapping benefits that include: protecting natural habitat, farmland, roads and other property from wildlife damage; disease control; biodiversity maintenance and improvement; public safety; conservation research; environmental and wildlife monitoring; food and furs.
Furs, naturally, bring a price. The 72 red fox pelts fetched an average of $10.48 during an auction in March held at Kidron by theThirteen bobcat pelts averaged $44.46. Bobcats apparently are becoming more abundant in the state, although targeting them remains illegal for trappers.The summer wild turkey brood survey showed more youngsters per hen in northern Ohio districts than in central and southern Ohio, reported wildlife division biologist Mark Wiley.
“The statewide average was 3.0 poults per hen in 2022,” Wiley wrote in an email. “The 10-year average remains 2.7 poults per hen.” The poult-per-hen count was highest in northwest Ohio at 3.8 and lowest in central and southwest Ohio at 2.4. The restricted fall turkey season, which is closed in Union, Madison and Pickaway counties, runs through Nov. 13.
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