A few more beaver dams...

[thatguy]

Being the curious one and it being a gun range.... Wonder what would happen if you used some tannerite at the base of the dam and set it off?

Brian

 

[smstonypoint]

You might want to contact you local USDA office. I had a beaver problem on my farm and the local USDA staff put me in contact with a regional USDA APHIS wildlife specialist. He trapped the beavers and blew their dam for a nominal fee.

 

[Window Geek]

Around here in Massachusetts, we have a law that won't allow
"interfering" with beavers. One has to get a state approved beaver control person to remove them, and only after another board says it's OK to do it.
Ignore the law and you'll get fined. Even if a public way gets flooded, the town has to follow the same stupid rule. :mur:

A buddy who lives on the other side of town says beavers know how to do two things really well:
Build dams
and
Make more beavers.

 

[HCJ]

Here in S.C. it is fairly simple. If you are the landowner, all it takes is a call to DNR and tell them that you have a beaver problem. THey send a permit at no cost, no season, and no limit. On my land, it would be hard to find my traps unless a wildlife officer wants to hike and get muddy, and I have never seen an officer on private property unless there is a report of illegal activity. You know, if beavers were damaging my property and blocking culverts (which they are) I would trap them anyway.

Caught two today!

 

[kebo]

Good deal! Now you can come trap the ones we got!

 

[kebo]

Around here in Massachusetts, we have a law that won't allow
"interfering" with beavers. One has to get a state approved beaver control person to remove them, and only after another board says it's OK to do it.
Ignore the law and you'll get fined. Even if a public way gets flooded, the town has to follow the same stupid rule. :mur:

A buddy who lives on the other side of town says beavers know how to do two things really well:
Build dams
and
Make more beavers.

Actually there is a third thing they do well, that is to make a HECK of a mess while building their dams. They leave dozens if not hundreds of small saplings looking like pungee sticks sticking up a foot above the ground. They can also kill BIG trees simple by stripping the bark off of them.

 

[PILOON]

Best (other than shooting/trapping) way is to lay stove pipe in the breech and multiple T's on the downstream side.
Beaver will dam any place that they hear running water, hence pipe and multiple outlets work.
Inlet need the same treatment as they sense the water flow and plug the hole, but with multiple T's the flow is not sensed.

 

[BobG_in_VA]

Be wary of contacting any state or federal authority on beavers/beaver ponds...the key word here is WETLANDS. If they "feel" the beavers have created such a thing...(and they do) you will not be able to use that land again....literally forever. Like they do out in Idaho for wolves (again federally protected but seem to decimate the deer and elk populations) the 3S system works well...Shootem', Shovelem' and Shutupaboutem'. BobG in VA who also used to have beaver problems.

 

[willfick]

The guys at Clemson designed a way to control the little devils' work.
http://www.clemson.edu/psapublishing/PAGES/AFW/AFW1.PDF
Not nearly as much fun as the old way...

 

[Redbug]

We also have a problem with them. Especially with all the rain and flooding, lately. That has allowed them to get into places they have not been before. Once they plug up the culverts under the roads, the water rises and the dam they build will run along the road bed. The whole area gets flooded, (great for ducks and duck hunting), and the roads go to pot. They are like mice...if you see 3...the real number of them around is exponential...9.

We try to keep up with trapping them...
South Carolina Beavers

They have a beautiful pelt, and their teeth are immense. I am thinking of eating them too, since I believe they are pretty tasty. The trappers of old dined and lived on them...