I know a fella that lost a whole pasture due to beavers and flooding. The County simply can’t keep up with the beaver issues and had to do something outside of the box. There’s only one County Trapper and he simply can’t keep up. Landowners that I trap for tell me that he’ll trap a couple of beavers and be on his way. Basically just going through the motions and not really fixing the problem.
A $20 bounty is a drop in the bucket in comparison to busting dams with track hoes if they can get to them. I help out landowners at no cost when beavers are worth something but that’s just in a small portion of the county. As much as i’d Like to, at $20 per beaver it’s not really worth a summer career change for me.
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