Sturgeon County will offer a beaver bounty to address flooding issues affecting the area north of Edmonton. Sturgeon County is offering $20 in exchange for tails of beavers killed in the county as a way to alleviate flooding. Sturgeon County is dealing with flooding in the area, and officials cite beaver dams like this as a one of the factors. (Travis McEwan/CBC)The bounty program may be a first for Sturgeon County, but it's not the first county near Edmonton to use a bounty program for beaver control. Anne County has been running a beaver bounty program, offering $40 per beaver tail.

Source: CBC News July 22, 2020 12:00 UTC