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providing feed and shelter for it.
Trappers and disease are the biggest threats. Diseases usually only strike when there is an excessive fox population and inadequate food. Trappers and hunters, however, are a constant threat.
It is illegal for anyone, except at the request of landowners, to kill foxes in Fauquier, Clarke, Loudoun and Rappahannock counties. However, the value of the fox’s pelt, or fur, has encouraged some trappers to ignore the law.
“Foxes really catch heck with trappers,” says Michael Power, huntsman for the Warrenton Hunt. “Trapping is a bad problem. A lot get shot in deer season, too.”
The trapping problem in Fauquier, Loudoun and Clarke counties has been reduced somewhat by a law, passed just last year, that prohibits trappers from setting traps within 50 feet of a road. This law greatly reduced the accessible area for trappers and helped weed out many casual trappers.
“Trappers were doing us in,” says Albert Poe, huntsman for the Orange County Hunt of The Plains. “The law change really helped,save a lot of foxes.
“It used to be that people could just drive along and check their traps without
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