Eager beavers.

[Newfie]

Since the anti-trapping legislation went into effect in Mass, the beavers build dams in culverts and flood and destroy roads. The local and state DPW's are defenseless. It takes months or longer to get special permission to trap and move the critters or to move equipment in or near the wetlands to destroy the dams. The best they can hope for is to bust holes in the dam if it is close enough to reach from the road. Some spots this has become a weekly ritual. A complete waste of local resources for the control of rodents.

 

[NeTree]

Mike...

there's always BOWHUNTING.

 

[Al Smith]

Beavers

Believe it,or not,there are beaver in Ohio.My cousin,lives on the Knox,county,Licking county line,near Utica Ohio.Several years ago,a pair of adult beavers set up house keeping,in the south fork of the Licking river.The first year they dug burrows,like a muskrat.The second year,they dammed a small stream,and built a traditional beaver lodge.The third year,with a set of yearling kits,they dammed the Licking river,as well as plugging all the field tile for 1/2 mile in both directions.They are real fond of cotton wood,which abounds along rivers,and have a taste for field corn,which makes them real popular with farmers.The last I saw the beavers,they were tanned hides,in Joe's den.

 

[Newfie]

Originally posted by netree
Mike...

there's always BOWHUNTING.

Excavators work pretty good, but I didn't say that.

 

[OutOnaLimb]

Have you ever tried tearing out a beaver dam by hand? Trust me its a royal PITA. In my considerable experience with these rodents, explosives would be the best route. Dynamite and Amonium Nitrate are cheap, or easy to make, and the low RE factor will easily shove that pile of sticks, mud and rocks easily down stream. Not that I would know from experience or anything.

Kenn

 

[Newfie]

Explosives would be nice, I agree. But nobody around blinks when they hear heavy euipment running, but they sure have acow when things go boom. Don't need the authorities intervening in illegal beaver killing.

I know one guy who goes after them in the winter time by drilling a hole in the roof of the lodge and pouring in a gallon of chlorine bleach. Apparently the chlorine gas is quite effective. They either die or leave.

 

[SilverBlue]

I always prefer red or blond beavers here in Canada they have a wild nature compared to down south where they are on the slow side, perhaps from too much inbreeding?

 

[treeman82]

We were back at that site a few weeks ago. Those beavers really are hacks. They dropped half of one of the crab apples which they put the notches in. They left the other half, even though it was already notched. The interesting thing was that they are now going after a LIVE weeping willow. They left the dead one alone (I guess they don't want to be helpful) and started on a perfectly live one.

 

[Chucky]

"I know one guy who goes after them in the winter time by drilling a hole in the roof of the lodge and pouring in a gallon of chlorine bleach. Apparently the chlorine gas is quite effective. They either die or leave."

Perfect example of the bad consequences of bad legislation. In this case, Massachusetts banning trapping. Ask Outonalimb what's more humane, slowly poisoning the beaver, or killing it almost instantly in an underwater 330 conibear trap?

Reminds me of how the Endangered Species Act has compelled certain landowners to clear all their land of endangered flora so they won't have to deal with restrictions they may pose to their land.

 

[DDM]

Originally posted by netree
Awww.... I've rarely met a beaver I didn't wanna eat.
Anyone want some recipe's?

Hmmmmmmmm care to elaborate?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by netree
Awww.... I've rarely met a beaver I didn't wanna eat

Ha! I sure as heck have!

But yet, I sthil dug in!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by netree
... some are best kabob'ed...

Uhhh, duz that mean soap and water?