Vermont is weighing a controversial plan to trap and remove beavers from 21 state-owned dams in order to mitigate blockages and ensure infrastructural integrity.

particularly since there are old beaver dams in the area slated to get patched up as part of the project. Forest thinning will also make space for aspens, a tree species beavers love to munch on.

It looked like a dam, he said, but could also be a naturally ... launched by landowners who once worked to get rid of beavers. “The tide has changed and we’re seeing, especially in the dry ...

The town is considering whether to purchase a device that would stop beavers from causing damage to a local pond and flooding in the area. For the past few years, beavers built dams that caused water ...

independent biologists to get the ecosystem to the point where beavers could come back.” Beaver dams and activity can help store water, improve water quality, boost biodiversity, and even create ...

Brown trout can successfully navigate beaver dams in defiance of many people’s expectations, according to a study. The research monitored trout movements in two streams in northern Scotland ...