This is a double spring, wrought iron animal trap likely used to trap beaver around 1810-1830 or earlier. Baited with the musk oil of beaver, the trap would have been set in bodies of water near ...

“These streams are all non-natal nursery streams that are absolutely critically important to salmon survival,” explains Wayne ...

Thanks to their impressive building skills, beavers are a keystone species—an animal whose activities support its entire ...

A new exhibit at Logan’s Zootah will give rescued beavers a safe place to stay and let visitors learn more about them.

I’m often asked, “what good is ‘X’ species,” “or “what can ‘X’ species do for me?” Regarding American beavers from a utilitarian view, the answer is that beavers are key to restoration of stream and ...

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 […] ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Efforts to clear out beavers along a creek at Ann Arbor’s Leslie Park Golf Course have involved using a lethal type of trap the city banned four years ago. The city’s parks ...

A beaver forages in an Oregon stream. Beavers are considered nature's engineers and a new law prohibits trapping beavers on polluted waterways so that they can help clean them up.

These types of traps are often directed at catching water-dwelling animals such as beavers. Padded traps can be used can only be used in the burrow of a wild animal or below the surface of water ...