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Rick , check out Thermacell mosquito repellent it's A God send and they make one that clips onto your belt or can sit on a picnic table .

Patrick , in a very few places beaver can be helpful , in others they can be destructive and dangerous to livestock because of the dams they build livestock can walk out onto the ice wanting to get a drink and fall through the ice and become bogged down and die or even drown .
Then if not found the dead cow in turn can in a sense poison the water and any other livestock can contract black leg .

One rancher I knew well planted 450 golden willow trees along the creek on their ranch at a great expense , the beaver moved in and wiped them all out within a few nights leaving punji sticks up and down the creek which in turn not only flattened 4 wheel tires but became a nuisance in general .

Not to mention flooding roads and low lying property .
 
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There is a way to deal with Beavers. The use of water bypass mitigation limits the flooding. Unfortunately it does little to save willows.

A drain is placed at a ideal waterline and any water above that enters the drain and is piped downstream. As long as the Beaver have their damn and it is holding water they relax on the damn building(literally). As the water level is established additional flooding is limited.
 
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Alphadog in some places that works well in a residential setting but out on open range not so much flooding and land erosion or ever widening swamp or bogs can become a problem .

Also if you have enough 4" S & D perforated pipe you can lay it on the bottom of the creek and through culvert \ bridge well above or upstream of the crossing the beaver may try to plug the culvert without any success .

I once found a beaver killed whitetail buck , it was crossing the creek during a wind storm and a aspen that a beaver was chewing on and quit before it fell snapped hitting the buck pinning it down in the water where it drown with a possible broken back .
I used to have pictures of this but a mad now exwife destroyed them . but not my memory ha ha !
 
Patrick Johnson said:
What’s the problem?

I’ve had a beaver pond/dams directly below my deck in Colorado for decades - all they’ve ever done to me is be cute.

Bears, on the other hand (also cute, but...)

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For me, the beavers have turned an area of well over 10 acres into a swamp. This was really good hunting land prior to the beavers flooding it, and now it's covered with water. I get your point though, there is a whole different variety of wildlife that is present due to it being flooded.


alphadog said:
Beaver flu is real so be careful in the water. Destroy the dams and be aware new beaver will move in the old haunts as there will be scent there for years.
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I shot two last year and the water level dropped significantly. It's back to that prior level again, so more beavers moved back in. This is an area that is adjoining another area that beavers took over a few years before that. If I look at the satellite GIS maps, which go back to the mid 1990s for this area, the progression of the beaver ponds on that area of the land is obvious. Their ponds are almost like terraces, with newer ones being about 2-3 feet lower in elevation than the prior one, and less defined since newer ponds have more standing timber in them. My permit allows me to tear down dams that are less than 2 years old, so only this newly flooded area fits that. That means I have to leave the older dams in place, but the beavers are still subject to other actions.
 
^^^^^^^ We get quite few free loader deer mainly in the fall that eat from the bird feeder now that my old hunting dog has passed away .

They also enjoy the plum and apple trees in the front yard when the thing's are close to being ripe .
 
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