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Trapping Information
POSSESSION AND SALE OF FURBEARERS
It is unlawful to possess or sell any badger, beaver, bobcat, gray fox, long-tailed weasel, mink,
muskrat, opossum, river otter, raccoon, red fox, or skunk without a valid fur harvest permit or
other valid permit that allows possession or sale.
CHECKING TRAPS
It is unlawful to trap furbearing animals unless the traps are checked and the animals removed
at least once every calendar day for land sets, and at least once every two calendar days for
underwater submersion sets.
LEGAL TRAPS AND SETS
• Furbearers may be trapped only with snares, metal-spring traps with smooth jaws or box
traps.
• Body-gripping traps with a jaw-spread larger than 8 inches may not be used unless they are
placed under water or at least 6 feet above the ground.
• During upland game bird seasons, it is unlawful to use snares on any land owned or
controlled by Game and Parks, on Open Fields and Waters Program lands, on U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service waterfowl production areas, on U.S. Forest Service lands or on U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers land at Harlan County Reservoir unless the snare is set completely under
water.
• It is unlawful to use any bait in plain sight within 30 feet of foothold traps set on dry land.
Bait is defined as fish, animal flesh, fur, hide, entrails or feathers.
• Body-gripping traps with a jaw-spread larger than 5 inches may be used only when placed
under water or at least 6 feet above the ground in the following areas:
• Land owned or controlled by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
• Open Fields and Waters Program lands
• U.S. Forest Service
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service waterfowl production areas
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers land at Harlan County Reservoir
• County road right-of-ways
• For restrictions on U.S. Forest Service lands, contact the Bessey Ranger District at
308-533-8115.
TRAP TAGGING
Traps include snares, steel-jawed spring traps and box traps. It is unlawful to set any trap for
furbearers or coyotes, unless such trap has the following information stamped or inscribed
legibly onto the trap or onto a metal tag that is securely affixed to the trap:
• the valid driver's license number of the owner or user or,
