Park board hears request for further beaver trapping discussion

At their monthly meeting Monday, the Hill County Park Board heard a request that discussion of non-lethal alternatives to beaver trapping be resumed in the future and that the public be made more aware of trapping activities on the park.

Audience member Lou Hagener made an agenda request that the board discuss non-lethal ways of controlling the effects of beaver in Beaver Creek Park at their next meeting, a matter he said hasn’t been given enough consideration.

Hagener said an an advertisement in the Havre Daily News last Friday announcing trapping would begin and did not provide enough inform...