Beaver exclusion?
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06/22/14 10:24 AM
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madtrapper
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Just wondering if anybody has discovered a method of excluding beaver without trapping them? I have trapped several place for beaver this year and I catch a few, but they just keep moving in. A few years ago this was not the case, you could catch one or two and the problem was gone. Not so any more, there have been two years with very little open water spring trapping in Minn. so lots of beaver still moving around.
Ely, Minnesota, coolest small town in America, 2010.
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Re: Beaver exclusion?
[Re: madtrapper]
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06/22/14 06:04 PM
06/22/14 06:04 PM
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Paul Winkelmann
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You guys bring up a very interesting topic that I really hadn't thought about before. I have a number of ponds, both large and small,
that I've removed both muskrat and beaver from. While the muskrat removal is usually a twice a year thing, beaver are almost always
once or twice and done. My thoughts are that you can exhaust the food supply for beaver pretty quickly from a pond, but even the
stretches of creeks and rivers that I have trapped, seem to be fairly beaver free. Good thing, I guess. Muskrats weigh a lot less.
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Re: Beaver exclusion?
[Re: madtrapper]
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08/24/19 10:40 AM
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AJE
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After trapping several beaver, sometimes removing the dam is enough to keep them at bay, at least for a while, sometimes.
Last edited by AJE; 08/24/19 10:40 AM.
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Re: Beaver exclusion?
[Re: traprjohn]
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09/03/19 11:37 PM
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AJE
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sometimes ya can trick them with a Clemson Water Leveler (Google it) BUT, usually have to trap them out then blow/pull the dam so it isn't too attractive to the next ones moving into the area Blowing out the dams seems rare nowadays, at least around here. I'd never heard of that Clemson.
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Re: Beaver exclusion?
[Re: madtrapper]
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10/20/19 05:32 PM
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Muddawg
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This will not work in all situations, but it was perfect for this application. My customer was fine with the level of the pond where it was. He just wanted to stop them from plugging the culvert. It was me who talked him into waiting until trapping season to go after the beaver. This is what we did to control the water level until then. The dam was already built in a horse shoe around the end of the culvert, so I simply installed a 12 inch PVC pipe across the dam. One end has a 90 degree turn into the water so they would have no open end to plug. The other end was simply shoved inside the culvert. During times of heavy rain, the water could still flow over the dam and the culvert was still able to carry a full flow so as not to have water washing across the road way. The beaver added a little more to the dam, but as the water level never changed, the culvert stayed open and free of debris. On the pond end, I built a metal support to keep the end at the right height. Cement blocks, tied together and draped across the pipe gave sufficient weight to keep the pipe from floating. I dug into the dam and buried the center of the pipe into the dam, half out into the pond and the other end inside the culvert. This was installed in the spring and remained in place until spring of the next year after I had trapped all the beaver off the pond and the owner tore out the dam.
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Re: Beaver exclusion?
[Re: warrior]
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02/04/20 01:35 PM
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Bruce T
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Only one so far has been successful. One of my clients with deep pockets did full chain link fencing with skirt and concrete spillway with lift gate. Expensive but that will work.
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