The local community has been raising concerns over the City of Ann Arbor and the Washtenaw County Water Resources Office’s choice to exterminate beavers in Ann Arbor.
In a joint statement shared with WEMU, Ann Arbor city and Washtenaw County officials consulted experts from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on managing the beavers and their dam at the Leslie Park Golf Course. They were informed of the possibility of building a beaver pipe to allow water to flow through the dam.
But with no guarantee of the pipe working and failure would mean flooding around the local area, officials decided to kill the beavers…