Please contact your nearest regional office for more information. Depredation Permits may be obtained from Commission Wildlife Officers or Wildlife Biologists. Firearms may be used at day or night if specifically approved by the Commission employee issuing the Depredation Permit. Traps set in the outdoors must be marked in accordance with Code 10.07. Conibear or comparable body-gripping traps with jaw spreads of up to 10 inches may be used inside buildings. Landowners or their designees with Depredation Permits may use any trapping method legal for use in the fur-trapping season. A Depredation Permit is required to shoot any nuisance wildlife at night.

English sparrows, blackbirds, starlings and crows committing damage to agriculture crops and personal property may be taken without a permit.Ī Depredation Permit is required to trap nuisance game animals other than beaver, coyote, muskrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, squirrel, and striped skunk outside of the trapping season. Rodenticides may be used to control mice and rats, but poisons or chemicals may not be used to kill any other animal. Bats that have bitten or otherwise potentially exposed a human, pet or livestock to rabies may be killed provided that they are submitted to the Arkansas Department of Health for rabies testing. Beaver, coyote, muskrat, nutria, opossum, raccoon, squirrel, striped skunk and nongame wildlife other than migratory birds, bats, and endangered species that are causing damage to personal property may be taken during daylight hours or trapped the entire year.

Black and white game animals