Oregon Bans Hunting of Fenced Animals
Oregon on Friday banned “canned hunting,” the practice of keeping exotic animals in a fenced compound and charging hunters to come in and shoot them.
The seven-member Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously to end the practice.
The only known place in Oregon to offer canned hunting is the 3,500-acre Clover Creek Ranch in the Ochoco Mountains. There, hunters have paid to bag such prey as Russian boar, Hawaiian black sheep and Israeli ibex goats.
The ranch’s owner, Clark Couch, had argued that the ban would put him out of business.
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