Too many beavers in Beaver Creek Park

After two Hill County residents raised the question at Monday's Hill County Park Board, its chair said the board would consider increasing the amount of trapping being done on the animal that gave Beaver Creek Park its name.

John and Shawn Keeley both asked the board if something could be done to reduce the number of beavers in the park, the trees they are chewing down and the dams they are building.

"It's just getting to be a problem, " John Keeley said during the board's monthly meeting. "They're knocking down them 75-year-old cottonwood trees, they've got those dams built that are flooding...