Section 570.40  Trapping Regulations on Department-Owned, -Leased or -Managed Sites

 

a)         General Regulations

 

1)         All the regulations in 17 Ill. Adm. Code 510 – General Hunting and Trapping apply in this Section, unless this Section is more restrictive.

 

2)         On areas where special Department tags are required for trappers, traps without tags attached will be subject to confiscation.

 

3)         Trappers must stay within assigned areas.

 

4)         For sites where permits are required a drawing shall be held prior to the opening of the season.  The date of the drawing shall be announced by the Department by public announcement (publicly announced means that the information referred to will be included on the Department's Internet Home Page at http://dnr.state.il.us, published in Outdoor Illinois, provided to outdoor writers for newspapers, and placed on the Department's Toll Free Hotline) and the drawing shall be held at the site.  Persons participating in the drawing must have either a current or previous year trapping license.  The number of permits per site shall be determined pursuant to 17 Ill. Adm. Code 510.20.  Permit applicants must submit name and address to the site prior to drawing.  Permits must be in possession while trapping on the area.

 

5)         All sites except Blanding Wildlife Area, Kinkaid Lake Fish and Wildlife Area, Mississippi River Pools 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, and Rend Lake Wildlife Management Area require trappers to submit a harvest report to the site superintendent within 20 days following the close of the trapping season.  Failure to report shall result in the trapper being ineligible to trap at that site for the following year.

 

6)         Body-gripping traps with a 10-inch jaw spread or larger must be totally submerged in water when set.

 

7)         Any person who violates the site specific regulations shall be guilty of a Class B Misdemeanor.

 

8)         No trapping is permitted in subimpoundments or designated waterfowl management units during duck season.

 

9)         .22 caliber or smaller rimfire firearms permitted unless otherwise specified.

 

b)         Statewide regulations as provided for in this Part apply at the following sites (exceptions in parentheses):

 

Beall Woods State Park (water sets only, site permit required)

 

Blanding Wildlife Area (trapping area includes the islands and associated backwater sloughs immediately upstream from Lock and Dam 12; no trapping on mainland)

 

Chauncey Marsh State Natural Area (obtain permit at Red Hills State Park headquarters)

 

Copperhead Hollow State Wildlife Area (site permit required)

 

Kinkaid Lake Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Mississippi River Pools 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24 (no trapping on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuges in Pools 21, 22 and 24)

 

Pyramid State Park (water sets only)

 

Ray Norbut State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Red Hills State Park (site permit required)

 

Rend Lake Project Lands and Waters (water sets only)

 

Sam Parr State Park (water sets only, site permit required)

 

Sielbeck Forest Natural Area (water sets only)

 

Siloam Springs State Park

 

Weinberg-King State Park − Scripps Unit (site permit required)

 

Weinberg-King State Park − Spunky Bottoms Unit (site permit required)

 

c)         Statewide regulations as provided for in this Part apply at the following sites; in addition, a permit is required; only Egg Traps^®, D-P (Dog-Proof) Traps^®, box traps, cage traps, and traps of similar design may be used for land sets (exceptions in parentheses):

 

Cache River State Natural Area

 

Cape Bend State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Carlyle Lake Lands and Waters – Corps of Engineers Managed Lands

 

Carlyle Lake Wildlife Management Area

 

Clinton Lake Recreation Area

 

Cypress Pond State Natural Area

 

Deer Pond State Natural Area

 

Devil's Island State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Eldon Hazlet State Park – north of Allen Branch and west of Peppenhorst Branch only

 

Ferne Clyffe State Park – Cedar Draper Bluffs Hunting Area

 

Fort de Chartres Historic Site

 

Harry "Babe" Woodyard State Natural Area

 

Horseshoe Lake Conservation Area

 

I & M Canal State Park

 

Kaskaskia River Fish and Wildlife Area (Doza Creek Waterfowl Management Area closed 7 days prior to duck season; the defined Baldwin Lake Waterfowl Rest Area is closed)

 

Kickapoo State Recreation Area

 

Kidd Lake State Natural Area

 

Lake Murphysboro State Park

 

Lake Shelbyville − Kaskaskia and West Okaw Management Areas (no more than 50 traps may be used per permit)

 

Lowden State Park − Kilbuck Creek Habitat Area

 

Meeker State Habitat Area (obtain permit at Sam Parr State Park headquarters)

 

Mermet Lake Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Middle Fork State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Mississippi River Fish and Waterfowl Area (Pools 25, 26) (land sets accessed by land only allowed during duck season; water sets allowed after duck season closes)

 

Moraine Hills State Park (water sets only; only body-gripping traps with a jaw spread of 5 inches or less may be used; no more than two persons may enter drawing on a single card)

 

Moraine View State Park (no more than 2 persons may enter drawing on a single card)

 

Peabody River King Fish and Wildlife Area (east, west, and south subunits only)

 

Pyramid State Park – East Conant Unit

 

Pyramid State Park – Galum Unit

 

Randolph County Conservation Area

 

Sanganois Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Ten Mile Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Turkey Bluffs Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Washington County Conservation Area

 

d)         Statewide regulations as provided for in this Part apply at the following sites (exceptions in parentheses); in addition, a permit is required; only Egg Traps^®, D-P (Dog-Proof) Traps^®, box traps, cage traps, and traps of similar design may be used for land sets; only body-gripping traps with a jaw spread of 5 inches or less, foothold traps with a jaw spread of 4½ inches or less and square body-gripping traps with a 10 inch jaw spread may be used for water sets; snares may be used for water sets:

 

Anderson Lake Conservation Area

 

Argyle Lake State Park

 

Beaver Dam State Park

 

Big Bend Fish and Wildlife Area (after the close of rabbit season foothold traps with a jaw spread of 7½ inches or less may be used for water sets)

 

Coffeen Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Coleta Ponds

 

Dog Island Wildlife Management Area

 

Giant City State Park

 

Hanover Bluff State Natural Area (water sets only)

 

Hennepin Canal Parkway including Sinnissippi Lake (trappers must register at park office; no floats may be set more than 14 days prior to the season and must be removed at the conclusion of the season; no land sets)

 

Hidden Springs State Forest

 

Horseshoe Lake State Park – Madison County

 

Horseshoe Lake State Park (Gabaret, Mosenthein and Chouteau Island Units (Madison County))

 

Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (only Egg Traps^®, D-P (Dog-Proof) Traps^®, box traps, cage traps, traps of similar design, and homemade dog-proof traps; homemade dog-proof traps must be designed with a leg hold trap no larger than a number two size in an enclosed wood, metal or durable plastic container with a single access opening of no larger than 1½ inch diameter, and body-gripping traps must be completely submerged)

 

Johnson-Sauk Trail State Park (no foothold water sets)

 

Jubilee College State Park

 

Kankakee River State Park (trappers must wear blaze orange while checking traps; no trapping adjacent to bike or horse trails; south of the Kankakee River, only dog proof type traps may be used until the close of the upland hunting season; no trapping on campground areas until closed)

 

Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area (site trapping season ends on the last day of archery deer season)

 

Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Park

 

Little Rock Creek State Habitat Area

 

Mackinaw River State Fish and Wildlife Area (water sets only)

 

Marshall County Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Mautino State Fish and Wildlife Area (trappers must register at the Hennepin Canal office; no floats may be set more than 14 days prior to the season and must be removed at the conclusion of the season; no land sets)

 

Morrison Rockwood State Park

 

Pekin Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (water sets only)

 

Pyramid State Park – Captain Unit (no trapping on waterfowl refuge during waterfowl season; no foothold traps; body-gripping traps must be submerged)

 

Pyramid State Park – Denmark Unit (no trapping on waterfowl refuge during waterfowl season; no foothold traps; body-gripping traps must be submerged)

 

Ramsey Lake State Park

 

Rock Cut State Park

 

Saline County State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Sam Dale Lake Conservation Area

 

Sahara Woods State Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Sangchris Lake State Park

 

Shabbona Lake State Park

 

Sparland Fish and Wildlife Area

 

Spoon River State Forest

 

Spring Lake Conservation Area (water sets only)

 

Starved Rock/Matthiessen State Park

 

Stephen A. Forbes State Park

 

Trail of Tears State Forest

 

Union County Conservation Area

 

Weldon Springs State Park (permit required by site drawing)

 

e)         Trapping is prohibited on all other Department-owned, -leased or -managed sites except by special permit which shall be issued by the Department when it is determined that the harvest of a species would enhance the biological balance of the resource.

 

1)         All regulations shall be according to species regulations as provided for in this Part.

 

2)         Permit application information and site specific regulations shall be announced publicly by the Department through the news media by September 1 of each year.

 

3)         Site specific regulations shall be listed on the application and permit and posted at the site.

 

f)          Violation of site specific regulations is a Class B misdemeanor (see 520 ILCS 5/2.30).

 

(Source:  Amended at 32 Ill. Reg. 10104, effective June 30, 2008)