Beaver trapping would be prohibited along impaired waterways on public lands in Oregon under a bill that’s headed for a vote in the House. Supporters of House Bill 3932, including […] ...

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.

Beavers were once on the brink of extinction, but over 100 years of protected status has seen their population rise steadily in Connecticut.

Beaver ponds may provide water for livestock, and conserve moisture in dry areas. Three years ago, the Interior Department began to trap beavers, turn them loose in eroded Idaho areas. By the end ...

A beaver dam holding back a pond collapsed Tuesday afternoon, sending a deluge of water over a portion of Elm Street in ...

If you see a furry head with whiskers pop up in a local creek or wetland, it may be an otter. Or it may be a beaver.River otters were re-introduced to Western New York in the late 1990s after they ...

One of the most misguided, counterproductive, and inhumane forms of wildlife management in the United States is the annual mass killing of beavers (Castor canadensis). Each year, tens of thousands of ...

Trapped and hunted to near extinction by early American settlers, the beaver earned a reputation as a nuisance species after its reintroduction in the mid-20th century.

Before beavers were nearly trapped out of existence in the mid-1800s, they inhabited high mountain wetlands and river basins across Colorado and the West. They played an important ecological role ...