Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1967
Keywords
Animals--Bounties; Wildlife management--Minnesota
Abstract
The bounty system has been in effect for 82 years in Houston County, Minnesota. Over $170,000 in bounties have been paid during that time for wolves, foxes, rattlesnakes, pocket gophers, striped gophers, woodchucks, and crows. Over 7,000 rattlesnakes have been bountied in a single year. A family of semi-professional bounty hunters collected 2,511 rattlesnakes in one year. With the possible exception of wolves, the bounty system has had little apparent effect in controlling animal populations in Houston County. Habitat change has been primarily responsible for the decrease in numbers of wolves and for the rapid increase in numbers of red fox and deer.
First Page
117
Last Page
121
Recommended Citation
Munkel, R. E.,
&
Fremling, C. R.
(1967).
A Review of the Bounty System as a Method of Controlling Undesirable Animal Populations in Houston County, Minnesota (1883-1965).
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 34 No.2, 117-121.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol34/iss2/15
Primo Type
Article