Oregon law, not a county ordinance, restricts feeding large wildlife. Placing food or other attractants that knowingly lures bears, cougars, coyotes or wolves is prohibited, and an officer can order removal within two days. Feeding such wildlife is discouraged countywide.
Clackamas County has no standalone wildlife-feeding ordinance; the governing rule is Oregon's habituated-wildlife attractant law, ORS 496.731, administered by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. It targets anyone who places, deposits, distributes, stores or scatters food, garbage or any other attractant so as to knowingly constitute a lure for potentially habituated wildlife (bear, cougar, coyote, wolf). An ODFW officer may issue written notice requiring removal of the attractant, generally within two days. Exceptions exist for normal agriculture, forestry and ranching and for feeding authorized by the ODFW director. In the WUI/Mt. Hood corridor especially, residents are urged to secure garbage and pet food to avoid habituating bears and cougars.
Failure to remove an attractant after a written ODFW notification, or otherwise unlawfully feeding potentially habituated wildlife, is enforced by ODFW; wildlife-law violations are penalized under ORS 496.992.
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