I mentioned this in a earlier post, but wanted to put it front center. There is group on FB called “Beaver Management Forum”. It has about 4500 members, and is run and dominated by the animal rights crowd. There are members who post reasonable and accurate information about effective damage control, but any mention of trapping or lethal control is attacked, often with misleading information or outright lies and misinformation.
So when someone searches beaver control or beaver damage, even google searches, Facebook will give group suggestions. A recent customer had this happen, and after going through the various articles and posts on this group they had a lot of questions and had a lot of misconceptions about what is practical and effective. I was able to answer those questions and solve the problem quickly and with much less expense than the tree fencing and flow devices and everything they had heard about on this page. The basic premise of the page is to call themselves “beaver management” in an effort to change the meaning of that phrase into “never trap or kill beavers”, and furthermore they tell people that removing beavers is never necessary or morally acceptable.
So I created a group to counter this. The more people who join, the more Facebook will suggest it, and the more of a chance we have to give those people accurate information and effective methods and also access to professional services that will solve the problem. Feel free to join and post/advertise your services, articles of interest, anything really - historic literature, tools and equipment, advice, anything related to beaver damage control or beaver biology etc.
The page is called “Beaver Management Information and Resources”. It should come up by searching that name on the FB search bar. I make nothing from the page, my reason for creating it is counter the misleading and anti-trapping focus of the other page that is called “Beaver Management Forum”.

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The group is starting to take off! If you do FB, check it out. Lots of information about beaver habits, interesting beaver facts, and of course a dose of control trapping as well. The goal of the group is to give the general public a resource for accurate information about beaver control and what we as control trappers have to offer. A big part of it is to counter the falsehood that I see so often online - that beavers can not be effectively or cost efficiently controlled by trapping.

It is also intended to give the public a way to find a professional control trapper and as a place for professionals to advertise services and products related to beaver damage management. The more members we have, the more FB will direct people who are googling about beaver control information to the page. Right now, a lot of traffic has been going to another group that used to be called “Beaver Management Forum” but they just changed the name to “Beaver Coexistence Forum” and banned all discussion of lethal management practices. They also spread misinformation about beavers and often say that lethal control for beaver damage is not effective. But then in the next breath they talk about how beavers were nearly trapped to extinction. Go figure.

It's getting bigger.
Pretty crazy that the old timers really put a hurting on them here in the late 1800's. Couple that with tularemia and the province had to shut beaver season down for a while. In todays age with gear and machines that can get almost anywhere, we'll never eradicate them. Not enough people got the gonads to go everywhere like they did in the old days.

so if your thinking of beaver management on a two year old beaver hut you can harvest two beaver a year without hurting the populaton

loosanarrow, I am in there and posted the video and pictures the other day of the dam removal with the excavator after removing a beaver colony. Great group, hope it continues to grow

Just joined, I see only 63 members, and of course Facebook tried to get me on the other site first.

joined

The other group just last week made discussions involving trapping and lethal control against the rules. Prior to that, they deleted a lot of discussions where trappers absolutely won the debate and talked good sense.
Those jokers called me an idiot and said I was lying because I said 6 month old beavers can survive if the parents die in the fall/winter. Then when I started debating their assertion that trapping was not an effective way to stop beaver damage, they deleted it and threatened to ban me. So I started a new group. I actually hope they come to this new group so we can have open discussions. But they probably wont because they know we will win the debate in the eyes of the majority of the public. They don’t seem to like that very much…

Some people tell me traps were outlawed in the U.S. many years ago. I laugh and laugh. Then I invite them to watch the Utube videos on trapping. some even freak out because there is a trap on my flea market table and say those are against the law to have.

I was at a local flea/thrift market a few years ago. The owner had new looking Bridger 1.5s that he wanted $20 a piece for. I told him I could go 15 minutes up the road and buy brand new ones for $8. He said they’re wall hangers now, been banned for decades……
“Uh oh…Ive got a few out right now in a pond not far from here”

“Ohhhhh, you better hope you don’t get caught!”