Winnebago County in northern Iowa has doubled its bounty on beavers to $50.County supervisors say an aging trapper who had kept the beaver population in check retired because of his physical limitations.Mason City television station KIMT reports that beaver dams can cause damaging floods.Officials say anyone turning in a beaver tail to claim the bounty has to prove the tail came from Winnebago County.

Winnebago County in northern Iowa has doubled its bounty on beavers to $50.

County supervisors say an aging trapper who had kept the beaver population in check retired because of his physical limitations.


Mason City television station KIMT reports that beaver dams can cause damaging floods.

Officials say anyone turning in a beaver tail to claim the bounty has to prove the tail came from Winnebago County.

