The color seems to be consistent.

Nice thread

Yes the singles are the ones out in the middle of the marshes that don't want to fight anymore and the battle scars on them prove it.
With the system of their lodge in place now, looks like you will be back every year now.

Those pales make really nice beaver blanket bed spread throws.

Use the old females beaver juice to get the last one.

Northof50 A red angry face. But what is it for? You seem to have plenty of advice, and I have seen very little of it that is what I would call good. You are the one throwing all the goofy stuff out there. I have seen much you were correct on.

MJM...thanks for sharing your prairie beaver adventures. Looks exactly like what I trap here in western SD. I watch all the videos on beaver trapping and chuckle when people talk about trapping at large lodges, bagging river rocks for drowning rigs, and finding sticks laying around to stabilize traps. What a joke! We have to carry in everything we need and walk a lot of territory to find those bank dens. I still think it's worth it. The beaver are large, well furred and tasty.

Thanks Les and Wanbli. I figured some on here had never see a mud, weed beaver house. I posted one a few years ago that was made out of all grass that was floating, just before freeze up. About half the people on here said it was a muskrat house. I tried to tell them it was beaver, but they were sure what it was from the picture I posted.

Mark,
Where were those beaver in the tailgate picture caught at? Some odd colors in there.

Rally The three beaver, 40 miles west of Minot and 15 miles south. The bigger catch north of Belcourt and just west a couple miles in the Turtle Mountains . I caught ever color of beaver I had ever seen in the Turtle mountains. From blacks to pales and a big mix in between.

That one bottom left is the strangest color combination I’ve ever seen. A couple like the top center are colored like a Nutria! I’d of tanned them just for conversation pieces..

Rally, I will say the area had the widest verity of colors I ever saw. It was all in a pretty small area too. I have seen difference in color in different areas, but this was a mix in one area.

Yep me too.

Got the male that I made a bachelor. Its a dead house now.

Nice clean out action!

You all got snow that stayed again...? I forgot, you;re in North Dakota, not South Dakota! 500 miles of mostly latitude change can make a difference...

It snowed for two days on and off. Winds 25-35 with 40mph guests. I figured I would wait until after the storm to go check. It started to melt this afternoon a little. We didn't get any rain to speak of, and we could sure use it. It is not uncommon for us to have April snow.