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By Shelby Myers

Published: Mar. 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM PDT|Updated: 21 hours ago

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) -Taking care of “nuisance beavers” in the city of Mobile has become a hot button issue.

There’s now a local animal rights group set to speak to the Mobile City Council Tuesday in an effort to save the beavers.

The Mobile City Council has already voted to re-hire Randy Howell with Waylon Wildlife Services LLC for about $13,000 a year.

Howell said he’s been catching beavers in Mobile for close to 20 years.

Howell said he sets up and checks on multiple traps in 23 locations across Mobile.

The goal is to keep the beavers from damming up local waterways so debris doesn’t pile up in neighborhoods.

Howell said because of state law, he can’t take the beavers and re-locate them.

In his words, there’s “no magic land to take the beavers to”.

According to him, the beaver could carry a disease or spread a certain type of algae into other waterways. So because of that, he does kill the beavers after he traps them.

It’s a necessary evil, he said that must happen in order to keep roads from flooding and development to continue.

On the other side of that, Awakening Respect and Compassion for All Sentient Beings, or ARC, plans to speak to at Mobile City Council meeting Tuesday.

ARC director, Tracey Glover said they want a humane solution to the beaver problem instead of them being killed.

She said she plans to ask council about the process to trap and kill the beavers and present humane alternatives.

Howell said he would love it if he didn’t have to kill the beavers, but doesn’t think it’s possible.