RHINELANDER - One goal of a new 10-year beaver management plan in Wisconsin is to maintain or slightly increase beaver population in northern Wisconsin. It was one of many topics during a public meeting on the management plan in Rhinelander Tuesday night.
DNR Furbearer Specialist John Olson says the state did a great job of shrinking the beaver population over the last 25 years. That's after beaver populations ballooned in the late 70s. In 1985, DNR data showed there were 225,000 beavers in Wisconsin.
Olson says the goal of the 1990 beaver management plan was to significantly decrease that beaver population, but there wasn't a target number, and he believes they might have gone a little too far.
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