Installing a drainage pipe at the dam: This technique is meant to make beaver dams unsuccessful and therefore convince them to move to other locations. Drainage systems also interrupt the dams from affecting water levels. This can, therefore, take care of the flooding issue that beaver dams sometimes lead to. Keep in mind that this process is not cheap. It requires a hydraulic engineer and materials to install these.

Dismantle dams and lodges: Before you do this, make sure that all beavers are caught, otherwise, you will have to keep repeating this process. Also, keep in mind that beavers work very fast, so you might have found that they rebuilt a dam overnight. Once you have caught all of them, use wood chippers to destroy all materials so that new beavers don’t reuse them.

Other tips: Try setting traps at night and then taking them down during the daytime. Beavers are nocturnal so you want to better your chances by having traps set at night when they are likely still moving about, but you don’t want to catch non-target animals during the day. Because it’s hard to reach them in ponds, streams, lakes, and rivers, set traps on beaver pathways. At some point they are going to need more resources or food, so use the paths they frequent. Also, make sure to properly camouflage the traps.