Re: Beaver advice
[Re: Boco]
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04/27/19 07:13 AM
04/27/19 07:13 AM
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Trap it hard EVERY spring and fall. Sound advice! I say this to people and they think I'm on a sales pitch. One customer read all types of information on how pond levelers work, paid for a consultant to come out for advice, and had them installed. Didn't want to use trapping methods and was told they would leave on their own once the work was done. The beaver dropped a bunch of trees, started on another dam that diverted water and created another pond that reached his septic. He's now on a management plan.
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Re: Beaver advice
[Re: WayOfLife]
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04/29/19 10:50 PM
04/29/19 10:50 PM
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The problem is not the lakes, but the problem are the beavers in the surrounding waters. Beaver will travel over land as well as water. The way I deal with situations is depleting the surrounding areas and that will provide a buffer for the beavers to move into, instead of the lake. If you focus on the lakes alone, you will always be filling up with beaver.
For an engineer's solution which would be more expense for the owners, plastic tile buried with cones to deal with the lake flooding would end the beaver damming problem, as they could dam all the chose to, but if alternate tiles drained it to the river, the beaver are not that intelligent to plug those outlets which would be set at the level they wanted the lake to be maintained. The township board should respond favorably to the additional tiles as this is about flood control and public relations, and should not cost a fortune as farmers drain areas like this all the time to keep from flooding.
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Re: Beaver advice
[Re: WayOfLife]
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04/30/19 12:02 AM
04/30/19 12:02 AM
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Posts: 45,488 james bay frontierOnt.
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Trouble with them is the beaver move upstream out of sight,creating dangerous high water upstream from the culvert,that in a lot of cases goes undetected. When that lets go,and they will at some point,especially if on high ground,the road is gone regardless of the water depth at the roadway. Just because the beavers don't dam the road culvert doesn't mean they don't have to be kept under control by trapping. Those levellers do nothing to prevent BEAVER problems. The water is not the problem-the beavers are the problem.When beaver are trapped out regularly there is no water problem.
Last edited by Boco; 04/30/19 12:03 AM.
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Re: Beaver advice
[Re: Boco]
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05/01/19 10:26 PM
05/01/19 10:26 PM
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Trouble with them is the beaver move upstream out of sight,creating dangerous high water upstream from the culvert,that in a lot of cases goes undetected. When that lets go,and they will at some point,especially if on high ground,the road is gone regardless of the water depth at the roadway. Just because the beavers don't dam the road culvert doesn't mean they don't have to be kept under control by trapping. Those levellers do nothing to prevent BEAVER problems. The water is not the problem-the beavers are the problem.When beaver are trapped out regularly there is no water problem.
Pond levelers don't work everywhere. In fact they don't work at all in most cases, but when you are dealing with a lake which cannot be drained, you will need to trap out 10-20 miles in every direction to stop new ones from coming in. Even that relief would only be temporary. The leveler won't keep the beavers out, but it will prevent them from raising the water level in the lake. I cannot stress enough that it must be properly constructed to work.
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Re: Beaver advice
[Re: WayOfLife]
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05/01/19 10:39 PM
05/01/19 10:39 PM
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Trapping 20 miles in each direction wont stop beavers from moving in if there is preferred habitat there. Trapping them out on an ongoing basis whenever they show up in spring and fall will prevent all the problems associated with beaver,not just the high water problems.With or without the levellers.
Last edited by Boco; 05/01/19 10:42 PM.
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