Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Kirk De]
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05/15/20 06:14 PM
05/15/20 06:14 PM
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trapdog1
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I recently went to areas that I trapped 38 years ago in Alabama.What I remembered was beautiful pastures and fields of grass with a small stream running through them. I caught beavers up on the hillside before they got to the bottom. I went by there with a picture in my mind of what it used to be. What a mess. All grown up flooded trees and woods and pasture. What used to be a beautiful scenery below the hillside is now just a flooded massive tangled up trees and unusable land. Beavers have destroyed tremendous amount of properties it was so beautiful before. Maybe you’ve had some of the same experiences. I wish I had a photographic memory that I saved of areas I trapped that were abandoned by future trappers that never were. Maybe some of you have similar experience but you saved the before’s. Sounds better than a new housing development!
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Kirk De]
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05/15/20 06:16 PM
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Bruce T
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Sadly changes are part of life.Nothing ever stays the same.
Nevada bound
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: trapdog1]
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05/15/20 06:20 PM
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ratbrain
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I recently went to areas that I trapped 38 years ago in Alabama.What I remembered was beautiful pastures and fields of grass with a small stream running through them. I caught beavers up on the hillside before they got to the bottom. I went by there with a picture in my mind of what it used to be. What a mess. All grown up flooded trees and woods and pasture. What used to be a beautiful scenery below the hillside is now just a flooded massive tangled up trees and unusable land. Beavers have destroyed tremendous amount of properties it was so beautiful before. Maybe you’ve had some of the same experiences. I wish I had a photographic memory that I saved of areas I trapped that were abandoned by future trappers that never were. Maybe some of you have similar experience but you saved the before’s. Sounds better than a new housing development! We have that too!
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Bruce T]
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05/15/20 06:22 PM
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ratbrain
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Sadly changes are part of life.Nothing ever stays the same. Trap the creek behind my house my entire life. Sure has changed since I was a kid.
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Kirk De]
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05/15/20 11:12 PM
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Posts: 6,696 Newark, Ohio 83 years
Actor
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Kirk... That is what happens when we get old... to me it is so sad. It is just good we grew up when we did... I think we lived the last of the good times and life.
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Kirk De]
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05/16/20 08:32 AM
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jeff karsten
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Seems like every place i used to put a canine set Now has a house, trailer or shack with the piles of trash around them Getting hard to visualize a grassy ridge with a bright fox standing there
olden tyred
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Kirk De]
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05/16/20 08:35 AM
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Michigander
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One mans trash is another mans treasure. My area could use some flooded impenetrable timber. It seems like every ditch is getting cleaned out and every brush row is getting pushed into a pile and burned around here.
Beaver have been extirpated here for the last 120 years. They have lots of work to do when they move back in and I'm looking forward to it. The closest colony I know is about 40 miles away. I figure in 20 years we will have beavers here again.
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Re: 38 years later what a mess
[Re: Kirk De]
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05/16/20 10:19 AM
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The Beav
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Sounds like great wildlife habitat. Your lucky It didn't turn in to a strip Mall or a golf coarse.
Last edited by The Beav; 05/16/20 10:20 AM.
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