William F. Andelt Quick Facts Snaring is an effective technique to capture animals that cause economic damage and for harvesting furbearers.
Snares placed in trails or under fences can successfully capture furbearers.
Carefully select sites where snares are set to avoid capturing non-target animals such as deer and dogs. Introduction Snaring is a useful technique to capture animals that cause economic loss, such as coyotes that kill livestock and beavers that cut trees or plug irrigation ditches. Snaring also is popular for harvesting surplus furbearers, one of our renewable natural resources. Snares are effective for capturing target animals, but may capture non-target animals such as deer and dogs if used improperly. Snaring is the technique of setting a steel-cable loop in an animal's movement path to capture the animal by the neck or leg.