Two dead sticks stuck firmly into the mud can also work, but it’s important to remember to use dead sticks and not live, green branches. The beaver will see those as food and steal them, knocking over ...

Otherwise he is apt to find only a torn leg in his trap. Sensitive trappers, if they can afford it, use the Bailey live beaver trap, a hinged, circular device which lies flat, snaps closed when a ...

To further this policy, the Bureau has published a Farmers Bulletin (No. 1768) on "Trapping and Transplanting Live Beavers", in which live-beaver traps are described and trapping methods and ...