"Shelf Life" of Standing Dead Trees by Species

[NSMaple1]

We have low wooded areas that beavers flooded, then the situation got reversed after a while. Leaves a heck of a mess, I wouldn't want to try to travel into some of it on anything motorized. A definite stuck waiting to happen.

 

[Boot Jack]

I'm going to just let them be.

 

[Boot Jack]

Yes for sure NSMaple1. I only go into the swampy area when the ice is thick enough (I hope) to hold the atv. I have a self rescue plan if/when I eventually break through...but it ain't goin to be easy or pretty.

 

[NSMaple1]

It's not only the soggy ground either. It usually leaves behind a mess of fallen or broken off or chewed off trees and sticks behind that you can hardly walk through. Basically renders it useless.

Darned rodents....

 

[Trapper_Pete]

ok , I haven't tried it but I hear beaver is might tasty meat.
the old lady next door said she grew up on beaver , muskrat and raccoon and beaver is the best.
I have tried raccoon was ok a lot like turkey leg.

be safe and get all the wood you can , in standing water it won't be good for a few years like it might be when dry ground.