Grants for Living with Beavers

The New Hampshire Animal Rights League encourages individuals and organizations — as well as businesses and towns — experiencing problems with beavers to seek solutions for peaceful co-existence, rather than resorting to trapping.

Wildlife control operators hired to trap beavers are likely to assure a property owner that the animal will die instantly and “humanely.” This is disingenuous because there is no guarantee it will happen that way, and even in the best of circumstances death is not instant.

Living with beavers may require more up-front effort and expense than trapping, but a beaver management system is a long-term solution. Trapping only removes the current beavers. If the habitat is attractive, it’s likely another beaver family will move in. Removing adults also risks leaving dependent youngsters behind; young beavers stay with their parents for two years.

NHARL offers matching grants of up to $500 to individuals, organizations, businesses, and municipalities looking to install non-lethal solutions for managing beavers in New Hampshire.

To date, NHARL has awarded more than $5,000 in grants to individuals and organizations seeking peaceful co-existence with beavers.