97B.655 TAKING ANIMALS CAUSING DAMAGE. Subdivision 1. Owners and occupants may take certain animals. (a) A person or the person’s agent may take bats, snakes, salamanders, lizards, weasel, mink, squirrel, rabbit, hare, raccoon, bobcat, fox, opossum, muskrat, or beaver on land owned or occupied by the person where the animal is causing damage. The person […]
97B.657 TAKING WILD ANIMALS TO PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY. A licensed peace officer may, at any time, take any protected wild animal that is posing an immediate threat to public safety. A peace officer who destroys a protected wild animal under this section must protect all evidence and report the taking to a conservation officer as […]
97B.661 REMOVING BEAVER FROM STATE LANDS. The commissioner may remove beaver at state expense from state land if the county board where the land is located adopts a resolution requesting the removal. History: 1986 c 386 art 2 s 54
97B.665 BEAVER DAMS; THREATS TO SAFETY OR PROPERTY. Subdivision 1. [Repealed, 2010 c 361 art 4 s 83] Subd. 1a. Removing beaver dams; agreement by landowner. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b), a beaver dam that is causing damage to property may be removed or destroyed by a person or the person’s agent from […]
97B.667 REMOVING BEAVERS, BEAVER DAMS, AND LODGES; ROAD AUTHORITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS. Subdivision 1. Road authorities. (a) When a drainage watercourse is impaired by a beaver dam and the water damages or threatens to damage a public road, the road authority, as defined in section 160.02, subdivision 25, may remove the impairment and any […]
97B.668 GAME BIRDS CAUSING DAMAGE. Notwithstanding sections 97B.091 and 97B.805, subdivisions 1 and 2, a person or agent of that person on lands and nonpublic waters owned or operated by the person may nonlethally scare, haze, chase, or harass game birds that are causing property damage or to protect a disease risk at any time […]
97B.671 PREDATOR-CONTROL PROGRAM. Subdivision 1. Authorization to take predators. If the commissioner determines that predators are damaging domestic or wild animals and further damage can be prevented, the commissioner shall authorize the taking of the predators by predator controllers. The commissioner shall define the area where the predators may be taken, the objectives to be […]
