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SMALL GAME & FURBEARER HARVESTS
Since the early 1970s, the Game Commission has used hunter surveys to estimate small game and furbearer harvests,
and hunting and trapping effort.
These surveys provide harvest and effort information from the previous season,
but also allow the Game Commission to
establish long-term trends that are used to
inform management decisions.
Many dedicated hunters and trappers
who receive our surveys provide us with
a summary of their seasons.
Following the close of the 2015-16
small-game hunting and furbearer hunt-

ing and trapping seasons, we sent questionnaires to a sample of Pennsylvania's
hunters and trappers.
A total of 17,754 Game-Take questionnaires, 8,001 Furtaker questionnaires, and
2,500 Mentored Youth Hunter questionnaires were mailed.
More than 40 percent of survey recipients completed their survey on the Game
Commission's survey website.
For the Game-Take, Furtaker, and
Mentored Youth Hunter surveys, we received responses from 9,676, 4,443, and
1,255 individuals, respectively.

Table 1. Estimated harvest by species
Year

Rabbit

Grouse

Squirrel

Pheasanta

2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

289,547
254,328
230,849
230,417
177,588

52,243
52,289
40,308
34,848
28,434

690,141
643,382
573,538
467,888
460,311

116,828
198,704
220,752
177,068
205,366

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N/A
8,420
7,116
8,691
7,293

510
690
620
601
738

Woodchuck Crow
821,965
844,515
959,879
560,120
491,503

182,659
289,833
140,997
261,374
65,028

Porcupine
10,096
13,596
15,213
12,400
7,867

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Table 2. Estimated number of hunters
Year

Rabbit

Grouse

Squirrel

Pheasanta

79,687
67,544
66,113
50,925
49,726

165,927
150,036
145,992
120,538
117,277

88,307
87,341
92,091
80,280
86,349

2011 109,369
2012 94,761
2013 91,628
2014 74,528
2015 73,286
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Woodcock Hare
N/A
5,058
6,706
4,496
5,872

4,039
2,237
2,410
4,796
3,434

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87,549
99,191
109,559
68,088
63,463

25,290
25,817
25,271
17,741
13,352

Porcupine
7,775
2,237
8,666
6,128
6,209

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