Beavers!!!!

A Ruger 10/22 is a pretty effective method. Get a license though. Poaching fines are no joke. And see if there is a landowner exemption for pest control.

i read recently (have not confirmed personally) that beavers have trouble blocking a vertical standpipe, even though they skillfully block a horizontal drain.
Of course, there is good eating on a beaver, if you remove the scent glands.

Got some beavers on our property also but they really aren't in a location that is bothering me. Just trying to figure out how to get the biggest tree they fell out of the river to cut up for firewood.

This is what I make of all the beaver cuttings around here. My buddy is a federal trapper and tells me where the prime huts are for me to go pick up sticks. We have enough wolves around that they keep the beavers in check here as of late. We use to have 6-8 beavers in the little river behind the house but since the wolves moved in they are all but gone. I see this winter they have moved upstream 3 miles and started a dam up there. I would rather have the beaver prob. then the wolves right out the back door. I have seen them running the river on full moon nights out the window.

Eat a beaver save a tree.

yooperdave said:

in the past, when those dam rodents created problems...

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I see what you did there.

Could you wrap some sheet metal around the base of the trees that you want to keep alive (to keep the critters from chewing them down)? I don't know if that'd even work.

dougstove said:

i read recently (have not confirmed personally) that beavers have trouble blocking a vertical standpipe, even though they skillfully block a horizontal drain.
Of course, there is good eating on a beaver, if you remove the scent glands.

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I have seen them build a dam around it.