We finished our truly staggering task yesterday, 26 counties in California wrote depredation permits good for killing a whopping 2297 beavers in 2016. You will not be surprised to see that in every way that matters, Placer county is still number 1 when it comes to granting permission for their killing.
So once again Placer issued the most permits, although considerably fewer than last year. They were more closely followed by Sacramento which we would expect with all those crucial levees. Sutter, Nevada and Colusa counties were close behind.
lacer appears to be issuing fewer unlimited permits, but they are still the winner. Contra Costa moved into third place with its two in Bethel Island and one in Discovery Bay.