Letter to the Editor - Management determined to kill beavers in Beaver Creek Park

Editor,

Beaver Creek Park has beaver, and park management is determined to trap and kill them. Management has been offered free help. A free solution.

Dave Pauli with Humane Society of United States, out of Montana, proposed a grant to fully fund the installation and maintenance of beaver deceivers in two to three of the worst-identified areas in the park for beaver activity. It would provide a cost-effective non-lethal alternative demo site with potential added benefits to education, tourism, wildlife watching and replication elsewhere.

The experts were ignored. The goal was to eliminate beav...