OAR 635-043-0071: Permit Required to Take Beaver

(1) Season dates, bag limits, manner of harvest, and license requirements for take of beaver are found in OAR Chapter 635, Division 50, the furbearing and unprotected mammal regulations. (2) Any person desiring to take beaver at a time or under circumstances not authorized by beaver harvest provisions found in OAR Chapter 635 Division 50 or not authorized by wildlife control operator rules found in OAR Chapter 635 Division 435 must first secure a permit from the Department. (3) The Department may issue a permit allowing a person to take beaver that is causing damage, is a public nuisance, or poses a public health risk on land that person owns or lawfully occupies. (4) Any person attempting to take a beaver pursuant to a permit issued by the Department must be in compliance with any condition of the permit including, but limited to: (a) Take is only allowed by the person or persons specified on the permit. (b) Live beaver may not be held, transported or released at a location other than the location of capture except as specified on the permit. (5) Nothing in subsection (2) of this rule requires a permit to lethally take a beaver: (a) If the beaver on privately owned forestland damages or imminently threatens infrastructure or agricultural crops. (b) By an owner of small forestland, or a designee of the owner, if the beaver is causing damage or has the potential to cause damage. (c) By the owner of forestland, other than small forestland, or a designee of the owner, if: (A) The beaver apparently poses a threat to infrastructure; (B) The owner or a designee of the owner first requests the Department address the threat to infrastructure apparently posed by the beaver; and (C) The owner waits 30 days after making the request to the Department. (6) Beaver taken pursuant to this rule shall be disposed of as directed by the Department.