Re: What do beavers do?
[Re: Crortvedt05]
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09/27/19 11:01 PM
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James
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Up here, beavers will move into an area, build dams, lodges, and feed piles, then migrate away once they have eaten available food supply.
If you're not seeing fresh sign, I'd say they are either gone or they are going a long way for food.
Jim
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Re: What do beavers do?
[Re: Crortvedt05]
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James
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"So they did all that work, rearranged the whole terrain, and moved on?!"
Yeah, that's what they seem to do up here. If you're dealing with a lake of any size, they may just go elsewhere on the lake.
Jim
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Re: What do beavers do?
[Re: Crortvedt05]
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09/27/19 11:29 PM
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Actor
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If your laws permit make a hole in the dam about 2 feet deep and 2 feet wide. That will be large enough in 24 to 48 hrs to start dropping the level of their impoundment. If they are still there they will patch up the whole. If they do that, start scouting for where they are in that impoundment area. That will save you a lot time in initially scouting. If they don't fill it in in a couple days … start moving up stream, looking for them.
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Re: What do beavers do?
[Re: James]
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09/28/19 09:33 AM
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Up here, beavers will move into an area, build dams, lodges, and feed piles, then migrate away once they have eaten available food supply.
If you're not seeing fresh sign, I'd say they are either gone or they are going a long way for food.
Jim This is what I notice here. Also I find here big older lodges with plenty of food source around that have been abandoned. My thought is there are for whatever reason beaver that have died in the lodge so the rest abandon. Speculation on my part, I sure could be wrong. Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: What do beavers do?
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Not really sure why they do what they do but they are "DELICIOUS". Yes they r delicious! I need to trap more so I can fill my freezer! Food for me and bait for fisher
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Re: What do beavers do?
[Re: Crortvedt05]
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09/28/19 11:56 AM
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Fried tail for breakfast.
Osky
"A womans heart is the hardest rock the Almighty has put on this earth, and I can find no sign on it" Jabless in Minnesota www.SureDockusa.com
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Re: What do beavers do?
[Re: Crortvedt05]
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09/30/19 07:12 AM
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James
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About this time of the year here in AK beaver are hard at work making the feed piles that will get them through winter. A fresh pile of greenery underwater near a lodge is a sign there are indeed beavers there, even if you don't see another sign of them. I used to find this situation on fast streams and rivers here in AK. On the outside of bends, where the water was deep and slow, beaver build a house that is half-lodge, half-bank den. And don't attempt to dam the creek. The den may look old and half rotten, but if there is a feed pile, there are beaver there.
Osky, I speculate about that too. My speculations vary in likelihood, and they are:
Wolves or bears got the beaver.
A trapper wiped out the colony.
They were abducted by aliens that were more interested in large rodents than humans.
I wish that Dobbins fella or some other beaver guru would drop in here and share his/their wisdom.
Jim
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