The Concord at the Glen HOA and its management company, Cagen Management Group has decided to use underwater traps to kill the beavers living in the development’s retention ponds. Once a beaver swims into the trap, he or she is stuck there and left to drown. A beaver trapped in an underwater trap can take up to 20 minutes to die, sometimes breaking his or her teeth in a desperate effort to chew his or her way out of the trap. 

     There are many humane options for deterring beavers from destructive tree chewing, such as planting evergreens around the ponds or attaching wire mesh to a tree trunk’s base to prevent them from chewing. A local landscape designer has offered to network with the area garden centers to acquire donated evergreens to replant around retention ponds. Flint Creek Wildlife Refuge has offered to present other options to the HOA/Cagan. There is also a different animal control company that is  willing to relocate the beavers to a wildlife refuge that they own.  WE HAVE OPTIONS BESIDES KILLING THE BEAVERS!

     Once a site becomes suitable for beavers, it  is likely that a new family will move in within a year after the previous population is killed, which means the Concord at the Glen will likely have to pay a trapper to come back every year to trap and kill another family of beavers. 

     When wild animals like these beavers choose to live in our neighborhood, it  is a perfect opportunity for residents to take their kids for a walk and show them a beaver family out in nature.

Please sign and share this petition if you think the Concord at the Glen should come up with a different solution than killing the beavers!!