It has been estimated that it might take 20 years and 33 million dollars to eradicate invasive beavers from Patagonia. Canadian beaver (25 pairs) were transplanted there in 1946 for their fur value.

Can they be snuffed out by trappers?

Depends on how much of that 33 million the trappers get.

Pay enough and anything is possible.

Send Boco, Problem solved!

Happened before.

enough trappers with argos and unlimited gasoline for government pickup trucks

We are told mtn. men with 5 longspring traps, a mule and a horse eradicated them off the entire continent, lol. Just imagine the damage they could of done if they had 330's! lol.

The roughness/remoteness/accessibility would play a big role I reckon.

I've heard,and I don't know if its true,they outlawed the trapping of beaver,caving in to the ARFs.O.k.,after I posted about it being illegal I googled it and its still legal.

I took a half dozen 330’s to TDF around ‘05 ‘06

Last I heard the gaucho’s were still using them

There was barely a tree on the estancia I was on,,

Plenty of beavers!!

Farther up river toward chile,,, where there were actually trees

Beavers galore!!!

They’ll never be eliminated

That is going to be a problem for sure. But like Jtrapper indicated...how accessible were the the Rockies? Especially with a bunch of bugs' boys looking over your shoulder.

Interesting.

My daughter is currently living north of Patagonia. So I could use her place as a base of operations. LOL

I'm gong to have to look into this.

Hey Lug,what is your daughter doing there?

Working for our government.

She's a foreign service officer.

Pretty cool. She must be in Buenos Aires?

No, she's in Santiago.

Chile is a pretty cool place. I'm planning a trip there this summer.

If they get freezeup there wiping out the beaver drainage by drainage would accomplish the job in a few seasons with enough trappers with under ice skills.
Its not that big of a place either compared to here..
If you look on google earth there are lots of dead ponds on each drainage where the beavers are with lots of ruined habitat that can no longer support beavers-looks like the game preserves here where no trapping is allowed.Dead pond after dead pond with lots of degraded habitat.
i think their problem is not enough if any professional beaver trappers.
Introducing a few wolves would also help the balance if they dont want to pay trappers.

This

We managed to knock them back pretty hard with fewer people and 18th century tech over a much larger area awhile back due to enough pay being available.

It’s doubtful they’ll ever eradicate them.