@book{ed52a58baef44c278bec2a64d6f06a24,
title = "2019-2020 Illinois Trapper Report: Harvest, Effort, and Trapper Opinions",
abstract = "We sampled 1,200 of 2020 resident Illinois trapping license purchasers from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources licensing database. Licensees were mailed an 8-page questionnaire, and we received 745 (63%) questionnaires. Trapping license sales increased 4.4% from 2018-19 (6,416 licenses) to 2019-20 (6,698). Trappers set an average of 15.0 traps for an average of 27.8 days or nights during the 2019-20 season and harvested an estimated 129,689 furbearers (up 1.3% from the 127,990 harvested in 2018-19). An estimated 67,915 raccoons (Procyon lotor) were trapped during the 2019-20 Illinois trapping season, an increase of 7.5% from the estimated 63,179 trapped during the 2018-19 season. Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) harvest was the next highest at 16,255 opossums (8.8% decrease from the previous year).",
keywords = "trappers, trapper opinions, trapper effort, wildlife harvest",
author = "Williams, {Brent D.} and Campbell, {Linda K.} and Miller, {Craig A.} and Stephens, {Lauren J.}",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "10",
language = "English (US)",
series = "INHS Technical Report",
publisher = "Illinois Natural History Survey",
number = "2020 (29)",
}