OAR 635-050-0210
Areas Closed to Hunting or Trapping


It is unlawful to hunt or trap furbearing mammals or unprotected mammals on the following areas except as authorized by permit or as provided in section (24) and (25) of this section:

(1)

Cemeteries;

(2)

City and municipal watersheds declared to be refuges;

(3)

Enterprise Wildlife Area, south of U.P. Railroad, and Marr tract;

(4)

Federal refuges;

(5)

Denman Wildlife Area;

(6)

Fern Ridge Wildlife Area;

(7)

Irrigon Wildlife Area;

(8)

Jewell Meadows Wildlife Area;

(9)

Klamath Wildlife Area;

(10)

Ladd Marsh Wildlife Area;

(11)

McDonald Forest (Benton County);

(12)

Metolius Wildlife Refuge;

(13)

North Bank Habitat Management Area (BLM);

(14)

Public campgrounds;

(15)

National, state and public parks;

(16)

Rimrock Springs Wildlife Area;

(17)

Sauvie Island Wildlife Area;

(18)

School lands;

(19)

Summer Lake Wildlife Area;

(20)

E.E. Wilson Wildlife Area;

(21)

St. Louis Ponds

(22)

Within city boundaries (note, however, that ORS 498.012 (Taking wildlife causing damage, posing public health risk or that is public nuisance) allows landowners and their agents to trap for the purpose of dealing with certain types of damage, public nuisance and public health risk. This authority overrides the restriction on trapping within cities);

(23)

Tillicum Natural Area.

(24)

Notwithstanding section (22) of this rule, trapping furbearing and unprotected mammals is permitted within incorporated city limits as follows:

(a)

Warrenton, except within 100 yards of any residential building or within the boundaries of Fort Stevens State Park;

(b)

Klamath Falls, on a person’s own property for muskrat and beaver;

(c)

Bend, as approved and permitted by the Department;

(d)

Cottage Grove; applicants must submit written request to the City of Cottage Grove for a trapping permit.
(25) Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area is open to hunting as permitted by the Department but closed to trapping furbearing and unprotected mammals.

Source: Rule 635-050-0210 — Areas Closed to Hunting or Trapping, https://secure.­sos.­state.­or.­us/oard/view.­action?ruleNumber=635-050-0210.

Last Updated

Jun. 8, 2021

Rule 635-050-0210’s source at or​.us