re: How to get rid of beavers?

I trapped beavers for parish police jury a few years ago. Did it part time for a year. I had trapped beavers before but learned a whole lot during that year. I caught about 225 during that year and didn’t even dent the population. Solved the problem in a few places but just slowed them down in most. Best control is get rid of drainage issue if possible in the cases where they are plugging small culvert. Traps work if you are not sloppy with first few catches. If they have never been trapped really easy to catch first couple but They get trap wise quick. Leghold with drowning wire in front of dam is best. I caught 18 over about three months in same trap. Get someone to show you how to set traps and leave traps out there and eventually you can get them if you are persistent. But if you just trap haphazardly a couple months a year you probably not gonna get rid of them. There was one pair of beavers that was plugging a driveway culvert right next to a highway. I caught the female the first night. The male tricked me every night for about a two months. Setting off traps and burying them in the dam repair. It became a “mission” to catch him. I would cuss and talk to myself every time I had to dig that trap out the mud. I swapped to a snare when I finally found a faint trail where he was feeding on grass on the bank. First night the snare missed him. Second night I caught him. I was so excited to see him caught. I went to the truck and reached for the .22 but instead grabbed the shovel. I went back and knocked that sucker in the head. Took several wacks. Luckily no one was passing by on the highway to witness. Haha