CLEVELAND, Tenn. – Thanks to the suburbs, there is a growing need for a very old job – animal trapping.
Jim Evans, the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency manager for the Oak Ridge Wildlife Area, demonstrated Friday how “rocket nets” and other traps can be used humanely to capture the critters.
“I’d say wildlife management now is about 90 percent people management, 8 percent habitat management and 2 percent the fun stuff, working with animals,” Mr. Evans told students in Cleveland State Community College’s Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries class.
Wildlife is trapped today mainly for tagging for scientific research or to move the animal to another area, Mr. Evans said.
But increasingly, he said, animals find humans invading in their habitats. It’s the animals who have to give way.