Now I have a beaver?

[WoodChuckDad]

I was close enough to shoot him with the pistol I had on my hip. I just didn't want to. I don't really need this right now but sometimes we don't have a choice.

 

[kcflhrc]

Never give up some free beaver

 

[bcp]

Pond water can be kept low with a drain pipe, with the inlet far back from the dam. Beavers try to fix the dam and it doesn't work.

Diagrams and photos:

drain beaver dam pipe - Google Search

Bruce

 

[Coyote machine]

Twice beavers dammed up the inlet side of my pond. Twice I hired a trapper and he live trapped them and killed them too, for around a $100. They had chewed down every tree they could find near the 'beach' entrance to the pond. Including knocking over a wood and iron bench and chewing on 4 x 4 PT lumber at emergency spillway at edge of pond. Every day for a few weeks I'd break up their dam building exercise at the main spillway and by end of day they would have rebuilt it to where not a drop of water would overflow the spillway! I think they have to girdle trees too or their teeth will grow so big they will only be able to show teeth when they smile!:beaver::beaver::beaver:

 

[TheMan419]

The description of the law says " At present, the owner or tenant of any property may take beaver discovered damaging property without a permit during the closed season."

So it reads that you have to wait for that rodent to cause some damage first. But I can't find a link to the actual law, just the DNR description.

DNR: Beaver

Interesting because DNR: Wildlife Removal Permits says that you can deal with them if they are threatening to cause damage. Love it when the states web site is self contradictory.

 

[riptides]

Beavers need to chew/gnaw to keep their teeth in check. The front ones will grow back into their skull, curving as they go.

 

[wngsprd]

Beavers are cool and fun to watch when I've been duck hunting in someone else's pond or swamp. In a swamp they make nice habitat for waterfowl, but in an existing pond they are trouble waiting to happen.

They will burrow into an earthen dam in no time, like Eddie said. They've done that to my upstream neighbor's pond, as well as build a dam on his spillway. He busted it out a few weeks ago, and his washout flowed downstream and sand and silt deposited in a large section of my creek, and flooded over my bridge for a couple of days. My downstream neighbor has beaver problems, too. They dam up his overflow pipe. Beavers had two small dams on my property when we moved here 33 years ago, but the small ponds filled in and they moved on, or died. I've only seen where they've killed a few trees here over the years.

Good luck with your situation.

 

[MossRoad]

Interesting because DNR: Wildlife Removal Permits says that you can deal with them if they are threatening to cause damage. Love it when the states web site is self contradictory.

Thanks for the link.... shoot it! Just kidding, but at least that one clarifies it. :thumbsup:

 

[dmccarty]

Pond water can be kept low with a drain pipe, with the inlet far back from the dam. Beavers try to fix the dam and it doesn't work.

Diagrams and photos:

drain beaver dam pipe - Google Search

Bruce

BCP beat me to it. :thumbsup:

Put in a pond leveler which is nothing more than a long pipe sticking through the beaver dam. The ones I have seen were large diameter PVC pipe about 20 feet long. Roughly 10 feet of the pipe is in the pond and the rest down stream.

Back in the last century I owned a lot in a subdivision that had a creek and an HOA. The creek was on the back of my lot as well as a few other lots. The beavers built a dam on the lot downstream from my lot and flooded a good part of my lot. This happened BEFORE I bought the lot and the HOA voted to put in a pond leveler. The problem was 1, the HOA had no business in the issue since this was on private property and 2, there was a change in the HOA leadership. The new leadership liked the beavers and the pond. Of course, the flooded land was not their land and the massive number of trees being killed by the flood and the beavers where not their problem. To make it even more ironic, these tree huggers let their kid run around cutting down trees on other peoples land.

Eventually, a pond leveler was installed and the beavers went away. As busy and smart as beavers are, they are not smart enough to figure out how to plug the pipe, so they leave. :thumbsup:

In NC, it is illegal to live trap and dump the beavers/problem on someone else. If you kill the beavers, which is illegal, another will return to the habitat. The best long term fix is to remove the habit with the pond leveler.

I sold my lot after this fiasco.

American Indians thought beaver tail as a delicacy. Just have to skin the tail and boil it for quite some time if I remember the recipe correctly. :licking::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Later,
Dan

 

[riptides]

American Indians thought beaver tail as a delicacy. Just have to skin the tail and boil it for quite some time if I remember the recipe correctly. :licking::laughing::laughing::laughing:

I tried that and the meat. Save some time cooking and go drink some pond scum. LOL!