Benefits of Trapping

Trapping provides many benefits.

• Trapping helps control animal populations by minimizing:
  • Starvation
  • Spread of diseases
  • Damage or destruction of habitat
• Trapping helps reduce damage to personal property by preventing or decreasing:
  • Flooding caused by beaver dams
  • Destruction of trees
  • Killing of livestock or pets
• Trapping protects certain endangered or threatened species from predators.
• Live trapping helps with wildlife restoration (see Unit 9).
• Live trapping catches elusive species for wildlife research.
• Trapping provides funding through sales of licenses.
• Trapping provides recreation, food and other products, and supplemental income.