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At the end of the 1993-94 furharvester seasons 755 license buyers were mailed a questionnaire asking for the results of their hunting and trapping efforts. Those who failed to respond to the original mailing were sent up to three reminders. A total of 516 questionnaires were returned for an adjusted response rate of 72 percent. The number of Fur Harvester licenses sold was below 10,000 for the first time since the license was issued in 1986. An estimated 7,680 individuals (78%) hunted or trapped furbearing animals using one of the three license types. Approximately three fifths of these individuals (4,686) used traps while 5,163 hunted furbearers. The majority of raccoon, coyote, and bobcat were taken by hunters, while trappers took a greater number of opossum, skunk, weasel, and fox. The only legal means of take for muskrat, beaver, otter, fisher, and badger is trapping. Harvests of all species except otter were lower than 1988-89 estimates.

At the end of the 1994-95 furharvester seasons, 743 license buyers were mailed a questionnaire asking for the results of their hunting and trapping efforts. Those who failed to respond to theoriginal mailing were sent up to three reminders. A total of 470 questionnaires were returned for an adjusted response rate of 66 percent. The number of Fur Harvester licenses sold in 1994-95 increased from 1993-94. An estimated 8,685 individuals (84%) hunted or trapped furbearing animals using one of the three license types. Approximately two-thirds of these individuals (5,768) used traps while 5,127 hunted furbearers. Of those participating in the season, twenty-five percent (2,210) both hunted and trapped furbearers. The majority of raccoon and bobcat were taken by hunters, while trappers took a greater number of opossum, skunk, weasel, fox, and coyote. Trapping is the only legal means of take for mink, muskrat, weasel, otter, fisher, and badger. Harvests of all species except fisher and coyote were higher than 1993-94 estimates.

An estimated 61,818 individuals hunted 247,505 days during the 1997 Spring turkey season. The 1997 season harvest of 15,554 turkeys, with 2,654 of those in the fourth hunt period, was down one percent from 1996. The overall hunter success of 25 percent was similar to 1996. The experimental Hunt 212 was designed to provide a spring turkey hunting opportunity for all interested hunters. An estimated 13,045 individuals participated in the hunt, spending 52,882 days afield (Table 3). The distribution of effort and harvest was very good with harvest in 29 of the 30 units reported. Satisfaction was lower in this unit than in the regular hunting units. Most hunters were satisfied with their 1997 spring turkey hunting experience. The 1997 spring season was rated as "excellent" by 14 percent of hunters, another 17 percent rated their season as "very good," 25 percent rated their season as "good," while 22 percent rated the season as "fair." An estimated 22 percent of the hunters felt their hunting season was "poor."