The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is encouraging residents to fur trap this year.

DNR Conservation Officer Jeremy King says he has seen a decrease in the number of fur hunters due to prices for fur decreasing. Kings states that this causes an issue. 

“I get more calls in the spring and summer of animals, furbearer animals like raccoons and possums that have this distemper and dying from disease because those numbers aren’t being reduced.”

He says that Mother Nature will step in and take control when there is an overpopulation of fur bearing animals. Kings encourages anyone to get fur harvesting licenses because it’s cheap to get and his projections show that fur will increase in price in the future. 

Trapping & Fur Harvesting in Iowa