Nov. 27—The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation posted a sign near Smith Lake recently, warning people to stay away and to keep pets away from the area because beaver trapping for ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — A coalition is calling on President Joe Biden to issue an executive order banning trapping and hunting of beavers on public land managed by federal agencies. The group, which sent a ...

House Bill 3932 would prohibit recreational trapping of beavers along impaired waterways on public lands in Oregon. The measure includes an exemption when the rodents are damaging neighboring ...

A trapper sets a trap for beaver during Vermont’s winter beaver trapping season. Photo courtesy of Vermont Fish and Wildlife On Thursday evening, members of the Fish & Wildlife Board voted unanimously ...

The NYSDEC is encouraging beaver trappers to visit specific Wildlife Management Units and a state forest in Western New York where trapping large beavers can be a two-handed task. Photo courtesy of ...

Stowe’s Memorial Park, seen here in April 2023, has become a flood zone thanks to the efforts of overachieving beavers, whose construction projects have raised concerns and water levels. File photo by ...

How to restore water quality in thousands of miles of polluted waterways in Oregon? Call in the beavers – the animals, that is, not the football team. That’s what new legislation – approved this week ...

Over the past decade, beaver populations have returned to southeast Michigan in places such as Belle Isle, Stony Island, the Conner Creek Power Plant and other places along the Detroit River. When ...

Ohio's trapping season for various species opens on November 10, with some seasons extending through February. Coyotes are the only species that can be legally trapped year-round in the state.