03/12/2024
PSA tags are required for up to 5 bobcat per year in Oregon. BUT YOU’RE NOT DONE YET. You must get them sealed by the department of fish and wildlife(similar to bear and cougar) within a certain period of time after the season ends whether trapping or hunting.
I run into folks now and then who miss this step and leave their harvest open to the discretion of the odfw.
I recently had a client try to do the right thing when he discovered his mistake, and though he was only 7 days late, they confiscated his sentimentally and monetarily valuable pelts and made him feel like a criminal.