Re: Nuisance beaver everywhere.
[Re: Boco]
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06/11/16 07:13 PM
06/11/16 07:13 PM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 2,981 Wyoming
Starvalleytrappe
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Not me. I hoping too start getting some calls for them soon.
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Re: Nuisance beaver everywhere.
[Re: Boco]
#5571901
07/06/16 06:27 PM
07/06/16 06:27 PM
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Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 45,262 james bay frontierOnt.
Boco
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james bay frontierOnt.
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Some guys on the main board were talking about a beaver eradication program that has been going on in Wisconsin for quite a few years to improve trout streams. I don't get that thinking.We have beaver everywhere here and the creeks are just polluted with trout.They spawn in the beaver ponds.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
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Re: Nuisance beaver everywhere.
[Re: Boco]
#5571940
07/06/16 07:14 PM
07/06/16 07:14 PM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 3,198 Midlands South Carolina
SGT. C
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Not here. We are heading into a drought if things don't improve.We need rain and I mean lots of it.Hay fields and gardens are almost lost for the year.I'm hoping things pick up when cooler weather gets here. It's been at 100 for the past fews days.
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I know a beaver or two, because I've seen a beaver or two
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Re: Nuisance beaver everywhere.
[Re: Boco]
#5572352
07/07/16 09:22 AM
07/07/16 09:22 AM
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Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 377 New York
Jim Comstock
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Wisconsin has had a beaver vacuum for a number of years in many areas, by state design, which is kind of sad, not normal. Surprised the animal people don't point it out. Beaver can be a real problem when fur prices drop, so highway departments must be saving, but it is an abnormal environment. Heard the same thing about the trout. It can be difficult to maintain a balance, keep "some" beaver because they are rodents that are very prolific, reproducing quickly. In N.Y they figured they would nearly more than double every three years if left unchecked in the Adirondacks, 100 beaver becoming about 220 and nearly 500 in six years. With milder winters and better feed they double even faster in outlying areas.
Back to precipitation. On one really wet year I got quite a surprise. Clients often ask, "if we trap them will they come right back?" I usually would tell them if we cleaned up the issue we were good for the year, which had, until that time, always been the case. One very wet summer I had two locations that each required trapping 5 times, new pairs moving in over and over again after heavy rains. In-between I would ask, "was there any activity after I trapped." Each time the answer was no. For a period of three to four weeks it would be completely clear, no damming, then start all over again.
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Re: Nuisance beaver everywhere.
[Re: Boco]
#5572574
07/07/16 02:28 PM
07/07/16 02:28 PM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 481 Northern MN
MN4Life
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Boco, water is everywhere here and so are the beaver. Houses where there were none in the Spring. I will be trapping one 5 mile stretch most of the summer as the county and I work to get a grade back up to usability. Could be a long summer out there.
2020-2021 Goals 57/75 Beaver 15/100 Muskrats 3/1 Fox 0/4 Otter 0/1 Bobcat 5/1 Coyote 0/1 Marten 1/3Mink
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