"many damage problems go unreported because some landowners: enjoy viewing and feeding wildlife; solve the problem themselves…; would rather put up with the damage than have hunters on their property."(2)

Examples of reasons leading to wildlife damage: "animals are moved to extreme lower elevations by forage or weather conditions causing conflicts with agricultural crops; animals are attracted to an abundant and accessible food supply…; traditional wildlife ranges are urbanized…; animals are attracted to changes in agricultural practices (i.e. replacing wheat with a more desirable alfalfa crop; the wildlife distribution changes by displacing animals from their normal ranges to impact adjacent land owners, i.e., removal of cover from mid-elevation ranges, causing elk to move to lower elevations onto agricultural lands." (2)

Elements of the Wildlife Damage Policy: "advice on potential corrective action to solve damage; providing repellents to landowners; hazing offending animals; providing barriers; allowing winter feeding either preventative or corrective; Green forage program (i.e., planting diversionary crops, fertilizing, building fence, water developments, etc.)" and lethal strategies.

OR spent $1 million 1990 on wildlife caused damage. OR does not offer compensation program. Cites complaints against compensation programs in other states: "Payment for damages does not alleviate the problem and payment to the same landowner for similar damage is likely the next year; the program creates new conflicts between landowners and wildlife agencies over the amount of payment [leads to arbitration]; with declines in revenue, other wildlife programs must be cut to fund compensation programs…"