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Commission hears Department of Fish and Wildlife on local trapping ban, considers aligning code with state law
Summary
The Planning Commission discussed complaints about beaver and bear damage and whether to amend Ocean Shores’ long‑standing municipal prohibition on trapping to better match Revised Code of Washington allowances for property damage or danger to humans. State wildlife staff urged city oversight, permitting and coordination with animal control.
Ocean Shores Planning Commission members and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife staff discussed revising the city’s decades‑old municipal prohibition on trapping during the commission’s April 8, 2025 meeting at the Ocean Shores Library.
Scott Harris of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife told the commission that the city’s municipal code currently reads as a total prohibition: “the code says, trapping is prohibited, period,” he said, and that the last update to that local ordinance dated from 1976. Harris and a Department colleague, Dan, explained that state rules (the Revised Code of Washington) allow trapping in cases of property damage or threats to human safety, but that a total city ban…
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