
Photo by Libby Travis.
A beaver that clambered up from the Neponset River at Lower Mills last night didn't want to go back to its watery home - would-be rescuers spent nearly two hours trying unsuccessfully to convince it to head back down to the river before Milton Police came to the rescue with a recycling bin - which they gently placed atop it and then slowly pushed it to the water.
Crossing the Neponset, video by Libby Travis:
Ann Walsh, who posted about the incident, reports on the gnawing drama on Adams Street at the Milton/Dorchester line:
We weren't first on the scene, but we hear it was in the street up closer to the intersection and some folks got it out of the street and onto the sidewalk.
The group then used all kinds of strategies to encourage it towards the storage place's driveway and then down and back up to a path that would let it reenter the water.
We hope it is on the right side of the Baker dam to get home, but this was the safest route to water.
BPD and 311/Animal Control were called, but nobody came to help. Milton Police came and helped to slow traffic and found us a recycling bin bc beaver wasn't cooperating with the plan so we eventually got it under the bin and slowly worked it up the hill in the parking lot to the path entrance.
My daughter is home on Spring Break and has been a seasonal park & forest Ranger the past few summers so she has some animal management experience so that helped.
Headed back home in the confines of a Milton recycling bin (photo by Libby Travis):

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Adorable!
By Anonymous
Sat, 03/15/2025 - 11:05am
Adorable!
Good job, kind humans!
By Pamela Fair
Sat, 03/15/2025 - 5:55pm
Thanks for caring and helping!
Happy Beaver Story
By Anonymous
Sat, 03/15/2025 - 5:59pm
Handle gently and they end up as they should be, soaking wet.
Hope he finds a clean home in
By Anonymous
Sat, 03/15/2025 - 7:01pm
Hope he finds a clean home in the depths of waters turned toxic by humans.
That doesn't
By Sator
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:17am
That doesn't sound like hope. That sounds like an uninformed attempt at a sardonic dismissal of decades of effort of work, that you sat on your ass and did not do.
Beavers in the Neponset??
I am over the fucking moon with joy!
Perhaps the beaver …..
By Lee
Sat, 03/15/2025 - 7:30pm
…. wasn’t lost. It could maybe just be on the move looking for a new site for a dam. Maybe it got too crowded in it’s previous territory.
BWSC Inspector
By Sator
Sun, 03/16/2025 - 9:19am
On the beat, looking for leaky pipes. Beavers are drawn to running water, and to making it stop.
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