@book{c4cc53a536614a1582d3120edda837e8,
title = "2020-2021 Illinois Trapper Report: Harvest, Effort, and Trapper Opinions",
abstract = "We sampled 1,200 of 2020-21 resident Illinois trapping license purchasers from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources licensing database. Licensees were mailed an 8-page questionnaire, and we received 639 (54%) questionnaires. Trapping license sales increased 7.8% from 2019-20 (6,698) to 2020-21 (7,217). Trappers set an average of 14.7 traps for an average of 26.9 days or nights during the 2020-21 season and harvested an estimated 163,292 furbearers (up 25.9% from the 129,689 harvested in 2019-20). An estimated 72,838 raccoons (Procyon lotor) were trapped during the 2020-21 Illinois trapping season, an increase of 7.2% from the estimated 67,915 trapped during the 2019-20 season. Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) harvest was the next highest at 31,703 muskrats (96.8% increase from the previous year).",
keywords = "trappers, trapper opinions, trapper effort, trapper harvest",
author = "Williams, {Brent D.} and Miller, {Craig A.} and Stephens, {Lauren J.} and Walberg, {Eric M.}",
year = "2021",
month = dec,
day = "22",
language = "English (US)",
series = "INHS Technical Report",
publisher = "Illinois Natural History Survey",
number = "2022 (05)",
}